Holy Optochip Batman. I need one of those to run my Harley.

RealPlayer will still take 30 seconds to buffer.....

lol, real player... that program has always been a joke. Good ole IBM though, constantly innovating.

Interesting!
1Tb/sec is my back-of-the-envelope guesstimate of the total available bandwidth in the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Nice to see them shunting that down a single fibre! Makes some of my past scoffing seem foolish now (eg: why is everyone digging trenches to lay cables, when all we need to do is just co-operate on our use of the spectrum).
:-)

I think if optical chips made of graphene are used, they will increase the efficiency, speed and improve the power consumption efficiency of digital devices way more than the same optical chips made of silicon.

Thank you Buellrider, am still laughing!

Just think, now we can calculate the federal deficit in 16 seconds!

Moore's Law continued... Does anyone else see the importance of this device? For one, graphene cannot match the speed of light, maybe the speed of light in a highly refractive material, but I digress. By using standard processes, they are able to build light computers of arbitrary complexity, thus technology is advancing technology and exponential growth of science and technology continues. We will most likely break the petaflop barrier within the next 5 years, if not the decade.

Awesome

"IBM states that 500 high-def movies could be downloaded in one second at that speed" 1 Tbps for one second is 125 GB so that's 250 MB per HD movie.
BluRays are usually around 28 Mbps (so you can stream 36,000 HD movies). Internet streaming is around 2 Mbps (720) to 4 Mbps (1080) (so you can stream 500,000 to 250,000 HD movies). Ahhh uncompressed HD is 2 Gbps (1920*1080*32*30+48000*8*24) (so you can stream 500 HD movies).
Figured it out it should read like: "IBM states that 500 [uncompressed] high-def movies could be [streamed] at that speed"