Now this is what I call fast. 160Gbit/s??? You gotta be kiddin' me! Fifty years from now, when we're all old & gray, our grandchildren are going to ask us how in the world we ever dealt with having to work on a network that only had transfer speeds of 100Mbit/s.... heh.

"The TD-OADM technology achieves these speeds by direct switching of ultra-narrow optical pulses. It enables the packaging of 16 separate data streams, one behind the other, instead of them running parallel on several frequencies."