"Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp ...and three others have jointly developed an optical fiber with 1,000 times the data transmission capacity of technology used in today's optical networks.The new fiber boasts a capacity of one petabit per second, or 1,000 terabits per second -- meaning that in one second it can send 5,000 high-definition videos, each two hours long, over a distance of 50km."
Source:New Optical Fiber Boosts Transmission Capacity By 1,000 Times
Friday, September 21, 2012
Nikkei.com (note links expire)