http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece
Basically the scientists at Cern have developed a new kind of fiber optic internet that is extremely fast and much more efficent, so they could quickly and easily send data to research centers around the world:
The catch is that this internet is completely severed from the current one, and although it won't be possible to really directly connect up to it for a while now, there are many servers connected to The Grid around the world set up already, so you would just have to set up a connection there.
This would allow the possiblity of Holographic movies being streamed, among revolutionizing the internet when this ends up taking over in the future, being that speed is no longer an issue.