<div><div><div><div dir="auto">“<span style="font-family:Merriweather,"Merriweather fallback",serif;font-size:18px;border-color:rgb(34,34,34);color:rgb(34,34,34)">China has beaten a global deadline, launching the world’s first next-generation</span> <a href="https://archive.ph/o/gz7CH/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3130338/china-starts-large-scale-testing-its-internet-future" target="_blank" style="font-family:Merriweather,"Merriweather fallback",serif;font-size:18px;font-stretch:100%;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);box-sizing:border-box;display:inline;line-height:30px;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none;text-decoration-style:solid;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:Merriweather,"Merriweather fallback",serif;font-stretch:100%;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;border-style:none none solid;border-width:0px 0px 1px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:30px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;border-color:rgb(34,34,34) rgb(34,34,34) rgb(27,142,248)">internet</span></a> <span style="font-family:Merriweather,"Merriweather fallback",serif;font-size:18px;border-color:rgb(34,34,34);color:rgb(34,34,34)">service – more than 10 times faster than existing major routes – two years ahead of industry predictions.</span><div><div style="font-family:Merriweather,"Merriweather fallback",serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-stretch:100%;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);box-sizing:border-box;display:block;line-height:30px;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The backbone network – so called because it forms a principal data route between cities – can transmit data at 1.2 terabits (1,200 gigabits) per second between Beijing in the north, central China’s Wuhan and Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong.</div><div style="font-family:Merriweather,"Merriweather fallback",serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-stretch:100%;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);box-sizing:border-box;display:block;line-height:30px;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)" dir="auto">The line, which spans more than 3,000km (1,860 miles) of optical fibre cabling, was activated in July and officially launched on Monday, after performing reliably and passing all operational tests.”</div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3241453/china-launches-worlds-fastest-internet-12-terabit-second-link-years-ahead-forecasts">https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3241453/china-launches-worlds-fastest-internet-12-terabit-second-link-years-ahead-forecasts</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or without paywall: <div><a href="https://archive.ph/gz7CH">https://archive.ph/gz7CH</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">All the best,<br><br>Frank<br>Frantisek (Frank) Borsik<br><br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik">https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik</a><br>Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 <br>iMessage, mobile: +420775230885<br>Skype: casioa5302ca<br><a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></div>