Researchers achieve 1 Tbps data speed over a 5G wireless connection

Researchers at a UK university have managed to achieve wireless data speeds exceeding one terabyte per second.

To put this into context, a Blue Ray movie weighs in at between 20 and 25 gigabytes according to FileCatalyst.

There are 1000 gigabytes to a terabyte.

So that amounts to 40 to 50 blue ray quality movies per second.

“We have developed 10 more breakthrough technologies and one of them means we can exceed 1Tbps wirelessly. This is the same capacity as fibre optics but we are doing it wirelessly,” Rahim Tafazolli of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey told UK technology website V3.

“We want to be the first in the world to show such high speeds,” he said.

Networks capable of reaching these speeds outside of a lab are unlikely to arrive until 2020.

Tafazolli claims that despite the speed, the real challenge ahead is bringing down the network's latency, syaing that “We need to bring end-to-end latency down to below one millisecond so that it can enable new technologies and applications that would just not be possible with 4G.”