That's 1.6 trillion bits per second, or enough capacity to let 28 million people all surf the Web at current modem speeds--on a single glass strand no thicker than a human hair.
And as modemspeeds climb, with ISDN, Cable, and ADSL becoming the new speed standards in the short years ahead, it looks like this next generation of "multiplayer gaming" will continue to soar well into the next century.