Wizards at Lucent and Nortel can zap--in one second--6 trillion bits of information down a fiber strand the width of a human hair.

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Each strand of fiber, in turn, can carry 80 wavelengths and typically uses 40, or 400 gigabips in all.

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Of the two labs, Fujitsu achieved the fastest transmission rate of 1.1 terabits per second, which were sent 150 kilometers over a single strand of optical fiber.

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