Blink and you'll miss it! World's fastest network downloads films 2,550 times faster than current technology

Buffering videos and slow downloads are the bane of the web, even in areas that promise superfast speeds.

But this could soon be a thing of the past after researchers created a network so fast - it could download a file in just 0.03 milliseconds. 

By comparison, the blink of an eye takes 300 milliseconds.

The advanced technology uses fibre with seven different cores to transfer 255 terabits of data every second.

This is 2,550 times faster than the 100Gbps currently offered as the maximum achievable speeds on single-core, commercial networks.