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China has launched the world’s first commercial 10-Gigabit (10G) broadband network in Sunan County, Hebei Province, with a significant deployment in Xiong’an New Area, a high-tech city being developed as a smart metropolis. The initiative, a collaboration between Huawei and state-owned China Unicom, went live on 20 April 2025.

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[-] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 2 weeks ago

how is it the world's first when there are several ISPs that have been offering 10g fiber for the past year

[-] think1984@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Past year? Iint7 (Switzerland) has been offering symmetric 10Gb to home users for almost a decade and their flagship home package has been 25Gbps for a few years now. Multiple ISPs in the UK have offered symmetric 10Gb for 6-7 years, ditto some American and Singaporean ISPs. I've had 10Gb on tap for years now. Funny how this clickbait untruthful article also slips in that the product isn't even symmetric, having a 10:1 down/up ratio. The 10Gb from my own ISP is being upgraded to symmetric 50Gbps later this year.

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

god when will i get fiber??

[-] variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 16 points 2 weeks ago

Its the worlds first in China*

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have no idea, they're saying they're basing the deployment on Huawei 50G networks, sooo I think this is either the author who didn't understand the assignment or a terrible translation?

Edit: well it seems like it's 10G as in cellular. Every article is absolutely trash so I searched in Chinese and found this article (translated) which compares it to 5G and mentions the use of new wavelengths to transmit the data

Edit2: here is the full translated article since the linked translation doesn't seem to work anymore

Chinese telecom giants Huawei and China Unicom announced the launch of the first 10G network worldwide, with download speeds of 9,834 megabits per second and upload speeds of 1,008 megabits per second. At the same time, the delay is only three milliseconds, which makes the network one of the fastest and most advanced networks in the world. 10G is coming, and the world is still catching up with 5G.

When most countries around the world were still worried about the coverage of 5G base stations, China had already taken the lead in opening the door to the 10G era. What does a download speed of 9.8Gbps mean? A 20GB 4K movie can be finished in 20 seconds. This kind of overwhelming advantage is like driving a J-20 to see others playing with paper airplanes. A delay of three milliseconds rewrites the rules of the game

E-sports players should applaud wildly at this moment-the delay of 3ms is faster than the speed of human neural response. Areas that require zero error, such as remote surgery and autonomous driving, are finally waiting for their "oxygen". Ericsson's best 5G record tested last year was 8ms, and China directly inserted the benchmark to the top of Mount Everest. Huawei's millimeter wave black technology can't hide it. The key to this breakthrough lies in the application of the 26GHz millimeter wave band. Just like expanding a single lane to ten lanes, Huawei's AAU (active antenna unit) technology has greatly improved signal transmission efficiency. The U.S. FCC will not auction this part of the spectrum until 2022, and the technological gap is already clear at a glance.

Don't rush to change your mobile phone. The 10G ecosystem has just started. Don't rush to smash the 5G mobile phone in your hand. At present, the terminal equipment that supports 10G has not yet been mass-produced. Just like in the early days of 5G commercial use, no matter how fast the network ran, it had to wait for the terminal to keep up. However, according to the iteration speed of Chinese manufacturers, this transition period is probably shorter than the popularity of net celebrities.

The true portrayal from following the race to leading the way. In 2016, China's 5G patents accounted for less than 20%, and China accounted for 40.3% of global 6G patent applications in 2023. This time the 10G commercial is like a beautiful shot back, making the narrative of "technological hegemony" more and more like a fantasy of self-comfort.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Cause china ...and we're on lemmy ...so yea

Another article is also at the top about bird drones that are going to turn the drone world on its head.

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

No. It's because it's cellular 10G. The article is terrible though

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, that makes it interesting. Since the article didn't state this... I'm still calling it lemmy upvote cause China.

But thats cool though, wonder what the range is on this.

[-] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it doesn't make sense because even in the article it talks about other nations already having it and china trying to rollout faster.

[-] gradual@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe it's over a mobile connection?

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