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New hollow-core fiber test pushes internet speeds to 1.2Tb/s
(interestingengineering.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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You'll never get this kind of result in the real world though because no matter how good the fibre optic is it's inevitably going to travel through a router with a chip made by the lowest bidder.
Not sure why you think so, nowadays network switches handle several terabits already, and on the consumer side there's always premium routers