The Internet is getting faster everywhere. Now, a new technology from IBM will open the door for connections that are beyond fast. They reveled a prototype for an energy efficient analog to digital converter (ADC) that enables connections as fast as 400 gigabits per second.

That alone is 400 times faster than Google Fiber. That's also fast enough to download a two hour long 4K ultra high definition movie in mere seconds.

The ADC chip was built for the Square Kilometer Array in Australia and South Africa to help us peer hundreds of millions of light years into space. It's expected to gather over an exabyte every day when it's finished in 2024. That's over 100 billion gigabytes.

Still, 400 gigabits isn't the fastest we've heard of just yet. Will the Internet ever have a speed limit? [ZDNet]