China, whose revolutionary DeepSeek AI model recently rocked the IT world, has now added another feather to its crown by successfully testing a satellite internet speed that is ten times quicker than Elon Musk's Starlink. A report claims that Chang Guang Satellite technology Co., a Chinese commercial satellite business, was the first to transmit a high-resolution laser beam from orbit to the ground at an incredible 100Gbps.
 
China beats Elon Musk in 6G race
According to the South china Morning Post (SCMP), the Chinese satellite company said it had successfully sent data from one of its Jilin-1 constellation satellites to a truck-mounted ground station at 100 gigabits per second (Gbps), which was ten times quicker than its previous record.
 
The Chinese company's lightning-fast speeds demonstrate that it has outperformed SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his Starlink satellite service in the competition for 6G technology.
 
China's satellite Internet is more cost-effective
Notably, china has accomplished amazing results at a fraction of the cost by sending only 80 satellites, which are about 535 km away from Earth, whereas Elon Musk has deployed over 5,500 satellites to establish his Starlink satellite internet service. Elon Musk has plans to send about 42,000 satellites shortly.
 
The Chinese company's head of laser communication ground station technology, Wang Hanghang, said that they had overtaken the Elon Musk-owned aerospace behemoth in the battle for 6G technology, even though Starlink is not formally engaged in 6G development. "Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, has not yet implemented laser satellite-to-ground communication, but it has unveiled its laser inter-satellite communication technology. Although we've already begun widespread deployment, we believe they may possess the technology," Wang stated.

100 Gbps in 1 second!
Wang claims that his organization was able to transport data at 100Gbps, which is equivalent to extending a single-lane highway to thousands of lanes or downloading ten full-length HD movies in a single second.
 
To put this into perspective, users can download or watch ten full-length HD movies in a single second thanks to blazingly fast internet rates. Although NASA's TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) system and the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) had already reached laser transmission speeds of up to 100Gbps, Wang claimed that his device is larger and heavier, weighing 20 kg. Aside from this, the system contains a ground-receiving unit that is truck-based, "making it mobile - an option that could lead to faster applications" because it does not require observers.
 
Where does india stand?
The two biggest telecom service providers in the nation, reliance jio (owned by mukesh Ambani) and Bharti airtel (owned by sunil Mittal), are well along in their plans to introduce their own satellite internet services, jio Satcom and airtel OneWeb, respectively, despite the fact that india lags behind the US and india in both artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite internet technologies.
 
Additionally, after receiving the necessary approvals from the Central government, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and the richest man in the world, plans to launch his Starlink in India.

What is 6G technology?
The sixth generation of wireless communication technology, or 6G, will significantly outperform the existing 5g technology in terms of speed, connection, and worldwide coverage.
 
In order to reach worldwide coverage, 6G is expected to be a far more integrated network than 5g and will probably use satellite, aerial, and terrestrial communications. The next generation of communications technology will likely use higher frequency bands than 5g, such as the terahertz (THz) spectrum, and have data rates of over 1 Tbps with latency as low as 100 microseconds.
 
 

 

 
 

 
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31/01/2025 08:52 AM