A team of engineers in the U.K. is pioneering technology that it says can boost the capacity of optical fiber as much as 2,000 times above current bandwidth limitations. The process involves translating data into electrical waves and transmitting them using a laser. The so-called Ocean project at Bangor University in north Wales has already achieved rates of 20 gigabits per second and, according to the scientists, could result in a commercially available product in three years.