Researchers have used a single laser to transmit data at 26
terabits per second over an optical fiber cable, a data-
transmission breakthrough that promises to come in useful for
cloud computing and 3D TV transmissions. The transmission is
biggest volume of data ever carried by a laser beam, according
to the group of scientists, led by Germany's Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology. With the demonstration, which sent the equivalent
of 200,000 high-resolution images across 50 kilometers in one
second, the researchers said they had broken their own record of
10Tbps, set in 2010. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the
largest line rate ever encoded onto a single light source," the
researchers said in an announcement yesterday. Read more of
"Scientists hit record-breaking 26Tbps by laser" at ZDNet UK.