An international research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph. ), and including Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Electric, President: INOUE Osamu) have set. To address this global challenge, NTT Inc., a Japanese telecommunications company, has come up with an answer: the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN), a next-generation communications and computing infrastructure concept based on the use of “light. ” Optical fiber has, of course, been. Japan sets new internet speed record at 125,000 GB/s, which is 4 million times faster than average U. Breakthrough uses 19-core optical fiber, matching current cable thickness but with 19x the capacity. Technology maintains speed over 1,120 miles, solving long-distance signal loss with. This marks a world-first in the use of commercial virtualized 10G-EPON remote optical line terminals to deliver groundbreaking speeds economically. Service is starting in some. - Expectation for Future Long-Distance High-Capacity Optical Communication Infrastructure - Achieved using a newly developed standard 19-core optical fiber, equivalent to 19 standard fibers, low loss across multiple wavelength bands, and the development of an optical amplification relay function. Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd conducted the first validation of co-existence between 10G-EPON*1 and ICE-X coherent communication*2 by optical wave length multiplex*3 with single fiber in its Osaka Works.