Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands and the University of Central Florida (CREOL) in the USA, report in the journal Nature Photonics the successful transmission of a record high 255 Terabits/s over a new type of fibre allowing 21 times more bandwidth than currently available in communication networks. This new type of fibre could be an answer to mitigating the impending optical Our data hungry society Due to the popularity of Internet services and emerging network of capacity-hungry datacentres, demand for telecommunication bandwidth is expected to continue at an exponential rate. To transmit more information through current optical glass fibers, an option is to increase the power of the signals to overcome the losses inherent in the glass from which the fiber is manufactured. However, this produces unwanted photonic nonlinear effects, which limit the amount of information that can be recovered after transmission over the standard fiber. transmission capacity crunch caused by the increasing bandwidth demand. To read further, please visit http://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/electrical-engineering/research/research-institutes/research-institute-cobra/news/30-10-2014-255-terabitss-researchers-demonstrate-record-data-transmission-over-new-type-of-fiber/ .