If you were unveiling a new internet backbone and wanted to convey exactly how large and fast it is? Well, if you're Nortel you'd make the unit of measurement a download of 'Star Wars'.

In a press release, Nortel announced

The new technology -- called OPTera 1600G -- is an optical amplification system that will provide enough fiber capacity and speed to transport the entire four-million book collection of the U.S. Library of Congress from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles in just seconds through one single strand of fiber. It also will support -- on a single fiber -- simultaneous Internet connections to 28 million households, or the simultaneous transmission of 360,000 distribution quality versions of feature-length movies such as the much-anticipated Star Wars sequel, Episode 1: the Phantom Menace across North America.