German scientists have beat the record of data transfer

BERLIN - computer users despair over the slow Internet connection should take to heart - German scientists

Scientists of the Institute of technology Karlsruhe (KIT) said Monday that they had broken the world record by sending data at speeds of up to 26 Terabits per second.

Data sent more than 50 kilometres (31 miles) on a single laser beam, was coded by a system of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in which the laser beam is divided into separate colour flow.

"With 26 Terabits per second, you can simultaneously transmit up to 400 million telephone calls per second," Professor Juerg Leuthold Institute said in a statement.