China Launches World’s Fastest Internet with a Speed of 1200 Gigabits Per Second

Those represent theoretical speeds that won’t appear at consumers’ homes anytime soon. But a more robust, faster internet service has broad implications for businesses, faster information transfers, stock trading advantages, and other national security implications.

In a recent press conference this week, Huawei and China Mobile combined launched the country’s next-generation internet network, in partnership with Beijing’s Tsinghua University and Cernet, an education and research network funded officially by the Chinese government. A backbone network is a network infrastructure that moves internet traffic to different geographic locations and can support hungry data transfers from technologies such as 5G and electric vehicles.

The network, with speeds up to 1.2 terabits per second, boasts the ability to transfer data from 150 movies in just one second. While these speeds may not be immediately available to consumers, faster internet service has far-reaching implications for businesses, quicker information transfers, advantages in stock trading, and broader national security considerations.

Wu Jianping, a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University who is overseeing the backbone internet project, said in the press release that the system, including software and hardware, was made in China, produced, and is independently controlled. He also called it the most advanced network in the world.