Researchers in Japan have set a new world record for internet data transfer speed, achieving a staggering performance: more than 125,000 gigabits per second (Gbps) transmitted over a distance of 1,802 kilometers, according to an announcement made at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC), held in San Francisco. That speed is more than 4 million times faster than the average home internet speed in the United States and would theoretically allow the entire Internet Archive to be