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Fiber optic cables are usually made of glass or plastic but those materials actually slow down the transmission of light ever so slightly.
Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have created a hollow fiber optic cable filled with air that's 1000 times faster than current cables.
Light can jet along the hollow vacuum of the new cable at 99.7 per cent of the speed of light with minimal data loss.
In comparison, the solid silica glass fibre optic cables in use today propagate light at some 69 percent the speed of light in a vacuum.
The new fiber can reach speeds of 10 Terabytes per second.
That's 1,000 times faster than the best fiber optic cables on the market.
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