I couldn't resist this little story on the BBC and elsewhere today, it's about how much data scientists in Germany have been able to squirt down an optical fibre at once, the answer (so far) is a staggering 26 terabits per second! That's a lot of data, something like 525 DVD's worth of data every second or roughly 35,000 simultaneous streams of 1080p hi-definition video. Of course it will be a while before this kind of band-width is commercially available and the team doing this work have already figured out on paper how they can get to 100 terabits per second.
As we know the internet of the future will (unfortunately) probably be mostly used like the internet of today, i.e. it will keep a lot of onanists very happy indeed.
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