NTT's 333GB-per-second fiber optics

Unsurprisingly for a telecoms company, NTT is constantly coming up with new ways to pump more stuff down its wires. This time, they've invented a system that can send over 1,000 wavelengths of light simultaneously down a fibre optic line, which means 2.67 terabits of throughput per second. To put that in context, a DVD takes up something like 4GB and we're talking about shifting 334 gigabytes of that each second. NTT reckons it will have this commercialised and up and running in about five years.

[Via Slashdot Japan“]