Beijing became the first city with a 10G network

 

The first city in the world switched to 10G connectivity. And this is Beijing.

Chinese companies Huawei and China Unicom have announced the launch of a 10G network in Xiongan, a suburb of Beijing.

Thanks to the upgrade, the bandwidth for a single user is increased from the traditional gigabit level to 10G, and network latency is reduced to milliseconds.

Many users in Beijing have already tried out the latest broadband Internet access. According to real—world tests, the download speed reached 9340.22 Mbit/s, and the sending speed reached 6311.59 Mbit/s.

If we take as an example the download of a 2-hour movie in 8K format (the file size is about 90 GB), then when using the "old" gigabit broadband access, it will take about 12 minutes, and when using 10G cloud broadband access, it will take only 72 seconds.

This achievement lays the foundation for future high-bandwidth applications such as 8K video, virtual and augmented reality, and cloud gaming.