IBM Labs break data speed record; Internet speed could reach 400Gb/second

IBM's new technology could help boost Internet data speeds to 400 gigabits/second (Gb/s) at extremely low power.

Scientists at IBM claim that they have broken the record for high-speed data transfer which could help boost internet speed up to 400 Gb/s and uses extremely low power.

The Inquirer reports that they have achieved this record using a prototype device.

The same was presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) this week in San Francisco.

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The report further reveals the device uses an analogue-to-digital conversion (ADC) technology and it could be implemented to tremendously improve the data transfer speeds between clouds and data centres by up to four times than the technology in existence.

IBM stated that the device is really fast—160 GB of data (equivalent to four hours of 4K video or around 40,000 music files) can be downloaded within seconds.

The ADC technology has been developed as part of an international project called Dome, which is collaboration between the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), DOME-South Africa and IBM, to build the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), which will be the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope when it's completed.