'Twisted Light' boosts data throughput

Quantum jump Innovations in computer technology are still taking place ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18551284

Rates of 2.5 terrabits or the equivalent of 66 DVDs per sec is the order of breakthrough.

Something like four thousand DVDs a minute or a quarter of a million an hour!

So far the technology has been tested over short distances of a metre but refinemenst will no doubt eventually make it viabkle over far greater distances.