I could download SO MANY LINUX ISOS!!

Oh boy, this is going to really take me to the next level in Balatro

To add at least one on-topic comment here:

the team achieved 51.3Tb/s transmission over a single 206.5-km unrepeatered span using only erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) amplification

This is impressive! Our usual spans go to maybe 120 km at most if I use our strongest EDFAs. With those we can deal with around 30 dB of span loss, and most fibers we can rent have around 0.25 dB/km loss. Of course this is on classical single core fiber, we don't use HCF yet.

I remember YOFC was also at last year's ECOC, where they presented their support tube hollow core fiber concept, reaching 0.05 dB/km at some wavelengths. Here's some slides I photographed.

I've stopped caring what the capacity is. Youtube doesn't require a fraction of what we have already in place.

However, they've put so many ads that an adblock is required.

But, if you have adblock you need to click the video you need to watch, let it not load, refresh the screen, wait way longer than should be needed, and then watch the video while getting a nagging popup that says "Experiencing interuptions?"

Followed by watching the video rendering NOT rendering at various points, and you need to pause and let it buffer.

All because google thinks they are entitled to push malicious ads onto my device, and punishing me for blocking them.

The speed we have is more than enough for the internet we have. The bottleneck is the companies enshittifying their own service.

Faster speeds mean nothing when you artificially throttle them.

This isn’t for you or me. It’s for their AIs to link globally.

Just for context, this technology is not made for any specific end-consumer. This is for backbone connections of ISP and higher tier networks.

In that space, 400Gb/s is the current stuff that's being rolled out with 800Gb/s starting to get traction. 1.2Tb is just the next step to reduce the amount of Fibers and Ports used per connection (renting fibers of an undersea cable is expensive).

Though one issue I see slowing adoption is that new fibers are needed. With coherent optics we already achieve 800G with the same single mode fibers already in use.

Big truck.

Why, so Zuck can stream back 8k footage of my bootyhole every time I take a shit?!

Right now I'm happy if I'm getting my advertised gig up and down. Any extra bandwidth would just be used by advertisers/spies to exfiltrate more data about me

Used to make cable filler for a living. A lot of what I made ened up in lines for google and under the ocean. It's a dirty business. We're gonna kill the planet for all this.

You'll never get this kind of result in the real world though because no matter how good the fibre optic is it's inevitably going to travel through a router with a chip made by the lowest bidder.

oh yes, more slop per second

In b4.
Now that does it! I've simply had enough of China stealing our technology.
They've been doing it for decades, but now they are stealing our technologies before we have them ourselves!! 😡
The worst thing is I now have to hear about how this was never invented in China anyway, and without the west 1.4 billion Chinese people could never have invented anything, because they are too stupid.
/s

EDIT PS: For some reason OP edited the headline to be WRONG.
The correct headline is:

China: Researchers transmit a whooping 51.3Tb/s through an optical fiber channel

1.2 Tb/s is per wavelength, which is normal to have multiple of. And has been tested up to 51.3Tb/s over a distance of roughly 128 miles.

Edit PS:
Yes I know China has "stolen" technology, so has all developed countries in the world.
Especially USA was built on technologies "stolen" from Europe. So give it a rest already.

Does anyone know what the previous record was?