IBM's Holey Optochip Pumps 1 Trillion Bits per Second

From Wired Top Stories:

IBM Researchers have built an optical chip that can transfer more data per second than pretty much anything else on the planet. They call this transceiver the Holey Optochip -- holey because they've taken a chip wafer and fired 48 holes in it so that laser light can be blasted in and out of the chip, moving data at one trillion bits per second. That's eight times faster than the fastest comparable optical components on the market today, and about 10,000 times faster than the 100 Mb/second Ethernet that's still common on corporate networks.

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