Is it true that the world's first 10G network was launched in China?

In April 2025, publications appeared in the media about launching the first 10G network in the PRC. Many Russian Internet users noted that in the Russian Federation, unlike China, it is far from available everywhere Even the 5G network. We checked that for innovation it actually appeared in China.

April 20, 2025 many Russian Media Reportedthat in China they launched The first in the world The 10G network, which allegedly became an improvement in the 5G network that appeared in 2019. For example, RBC In its article it noted that, in addition to the implementation of 10G, China is also leading in the number of existing 5G base stations. Telegraph.news He wrote: “While the whole world is only developing the 5G connection, they announced the successful tests of the 10G network”, and “Rosbalt"Specified that the download speed on the 10G network reaches 9834 Mbps, which is ten times faster than the standard 5G. Portal Users "Zen»We also drew attention to the new high -speed Internet in China, which is 10 times faster than 5G. Some English -speaking news sites They also wrote about the new Chinese network: “It seems that yesterday companies have advertised huge 5G speeds, and now China has advanced the industry even further by launching the first 10G broadband network in its futuristic metropolis.”

April 20 on the Chinese news portal MyDrivers The news appeared that the Chinese company Huawei and the Internet provider of China Unicom launched the world's first 10G network in the Xunan area-Chinese Analogue of Silicon Valley. The data load speed during the first tests was 9834 Mbps, and the shipment speed was 6311 Mbps. For comparison: this speed is approximately 113 times higher than the average speed of broadband Internet access in Russia, component About 87 Mbps/s. After the release of this news, many readers remembered hype around 5G mobile communications, which appeared In some countries in 2019, and set The question of where the following networks 6G, 7G, 8G and 9G went.

The fact is that the letter G in the context of the mobile communications standard denotes a generation of technology (from English Generation). Evolution From 1G to 5G began in 1979, when Tokyo residents first gained access to mobile communications. And after 40 years, in 2019, the inhabitants of South Korea have already begun to use the most modern wireless generation today - 5G. In ideal conditions that depend on the location, the network provider and the capabilities of the receiving device, 5G can provide speeds of up to 20 Gb/s. In Russia, deployment of 5G networks in large cities planned for 2026.

But in the Chinese project, which became the hero of the news, the letter G denotes the data transfer rate (in this case 10 Gbit), not a generation. In China was launched Not ultra -modern wireless communication, but a broadband wired network through which you can transfer files at a speed of up to 10 Gb/s. It is worth noting that in the original article of the portal MyDrivers In the Chinese language it was not written that such a network became the first in the world, as many Russian -speaking sources later claimed. It only says about the successful launch of the first 10G broadband network in the new Sunan district - an innovative smart city, the construction of which Planned Complete in 2035.

However, China is not the only country that has reached such data transfer speeds. In some countries, operators have been offering to subscribers Internet services at a speed of 10 Gb/s, using advanced fiber-optical infrastructure. For example, Japan is considered a world leader in the field of high -speed Internet, and back in 2020, Japanese telecommunication service providers Offered Symmetric fiber -optic compounds of 10 Gbit/s (this speed of download and data dispatch) for about $ 55 per month. In South Korea, the Internet with similar speeds became Available Users of the Internet provider KT in 2018. Iceland boasts one of the best levels of Internet coverage-more than 93% of houses throughout the country Connected To the full -glidered networks at a speed of at least 1 Gbit/s, and most of these users a speed of 10 Gbit/s is available.

Record The speeds of the wire Internet managed to establish the researchers of the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of Japan, which in March 2024 achieved the data transfer speed of 402 TBIT (402,000 GBT) per second, using 50 km of ordinary commercially accessible fiber. And using a special optical fiber, researchers of the same Japanese institute dispersed Internet up to 22.9 Petabits (22 900,000 GBT) per second. However, so far the achievement of such speeds is possible only in laboratory conditions. The wide implementation of these technologies will require the replacement of all available infrastructure.

As for the 5G wireless network, with which the new Chinese 10G network was compared, this standard of mobile Internet can also reach 10 Gbit/s in perfect conditions, although real results usually make up 100 to 400 Mbit/s in urban areas. But the next generation, 6G, which is expected by 2030, will be able to reach a speed of 1000 Gb/s. So far the highest speed succeeded Get engineers of the University College of London in 2024 - 938 Gb/s.

Thus, the Chinese network 10G (10 Gbit/s) is not related to 5G mobile communications (fifth generation). In addition, the 10G infrastructure, introduced by Chinese companies, is not the world's first network with such high data transfer indicators. In a number of countries, home Internet users have access to such speeds for several years. Most likely, the launch of this network in the new area Sunan was in the news headlines due to the special status of this “smart” city, and not the record speed of this wired network.

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