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Alcatel/Lucent says they’ve crushed the previous data transmission record of 14 Terabits per second.

“Combined research teams from the United States and France successfully transmitted a world record 25.6 Terabits per second (Tb/s) of optical data over a single fiber strand, using 160 Wavelength-Division Multiplexed (WDM) channels.”

For those of you who need the long-tired DVD equivalent - that’s enough bandwidth to transmit more than 600 DVDs per second. Back in 2002, the record was 2.56Tbps. Well, that certainly puts my DSL line to shame.

Of course, this insanity isn’t about to be hooked up to your house anytime soon, but just knowing that they’ve figured out how to do it means that eventually, at some point, people will probably have speeds similar to this when they connect to the Internet. Hell, even 1/10th of that speed would be totally bananas overkill. But I’d take it, oh yes, I would take it.