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Increasing Internet Speeds

“Engineers in Japan have set a new world record forfastest internet speed — and it’s so fast, you’d be able todownload nearly 80,000 movies in just one second.

The new record is 319 terabits per second (Tb/s). That’s doublethe previous world record for fastest internet speed andabout 7.6 million times faster than the average home internet speedin the U.S. (42 megabits per second).”

As organizations and individuals rely more and more on theinternet to provide faster and larger amounts of content and moredevices are connected, bandwidth becomes a concern. What are theimplications of having fiber-optic cable to everyone’s home? Howwill our society change as internet speeds increase by an order ofmagnitude or more?