A Wi-Fi connection with a world-record speed of 100 gigabytes per second has been created by scientists in Germany.
The team, based at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF), achieved this feat by applying a photonic method to generate radio signals at the transmitter and using fully integrated electronic circuits in the receiver.
This created a connection with a frequency of 237.5GHz, which is nearly 50 times the frequency of the current Wireless-n standard. Using this connection, it would be possible to download a full Blu-Ray feature film in two seconds.
According to redorbit.com, the team broke actually broke the record of 40Gbps which they set themselves earlier this year.
Swen Konig, one of the researchers who worked on the project, believes there is scope to make this connection even faster still.
In an statement cited by gizmodo.co.uk, he explained: “By employing optical and electrical multiplexing techniques, i.e., by simultaneously transmitting multiple data streams, and by using multiple transmitting and receiving antennas, the data rate could be multiplied. Hence, radio systems having a data rate of 1 terabit per second appear to be feasible.”
Unfortunately, the range of this Wi-Fi connection is extremely poor and certainly wouldn’t work through walls.
