Pakistan, July 11 -- Japan has achieved a groundbreaking world record in internet speed, reaching 1.02 petabits per second in a controlled lab test. The experiment was conducted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Researchers used a 19-core optical fiber stretched across 1,800 kilometers to demonstrate the new speed.

At this speed, it's possible to download the entire Netflix library in under one second. Millions of 8K videos could stream at once without lag. The speed is reportedly millions of times faster than average internet speeds in the US and globally. However, this was achieved under ideal lab conditions, not in real-world scenarios.

The test used advanced optical fiber that is compatib...