found this online bulletin today:

Lucent said on Thursday its Bell Labs scientists found that a single strand of optical fibre could transmit 10-times more information than previously thought, which means the potential power of such networks has yet to be realised.
The Bell Labs team, whose scientific results appear in Thursday's issue of the British journal Nature, found that it is theoretically possible to send about 100 terabits of information, or roughly 20 billion one-page emails, simultaneously per Current commercial optical systems can transmit just under two terabits of information per second and laboratory experiments have demonstrated transmission rates of 10 terabits per second.
"This paper highlights the fundamental understanding of the ultimate capacity of fibre," said the chief technical officer of Lucent's Optical Networking Group.

A man clearly born for his job - his name?

Alastair Glass