Japan has once again raised the bar in global infrastructure, not just with its bullet trains or modern buildings, but now with the world’s fastest internet. Researchers in Japan have hit a record-breaking speed of 1.02 petabits per second, a pace so quick it could let you download the entire Netflix library in just a blink.

To understand just how fast this is, consider this: Japan's new internet speed is 16 million times faster than the average internet speed in India, which is around 63.55 Mbps. It’s also 3.5 million times faster than the average connection in the United States, according to a report by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).

The record was achieved by the Photonic Network Laboratory at NICT, working in partnership with Sumitomo Electric and other European collaborators. Together, they developed a cutting-edge system that uses a special fibre optic cable containing 19 cores, instead of the usual one, to send data over a long distance, 1,808 kilometers in one second.

To put it simply, at this speed, you could download the entire English version of Wikipedia 10,000 times in just one second. For context, the English Wikipedia takes up roughly 100 GB of storage, as reported by Gagadget. Even 8K videos, known for their massive file sizes, could be downloaded in a second.

This new development makes Japan not just a leader in transport and infrastructure, but now a global front-runner in digital speed.

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