Comment Re:That's not much storage, really... (Score 1) 71
This is true, however the capacity can be increased not by increasing the latency, but by increasing the buffer size of the routers, and by increasing the number of routers. The side effect of this increase would be increased latency. Doing this would put a certain percentage of the data on the fiber network, and a certain percentage in the buffers.
For instance, 10 gigs/sec with a latency of 100 ms would result in 1 gig of data, but put ten routers with a (hypothetical) gig of buffer, and you have 101 gigs of space at a latency 10.1 seconds. There is sort of a space/speed ratio that has to be met. Increase the speed, and you lose space on the network. However, increase the speed of the connections (100 gig/sec if thats possible) and you can bypass this restriction.
For instance, 10 gigs/sec with a latency of 100 ms would result in 1 gig of data, but put ten routers with a (hypothetical) gig of buffer, and you have 101 gigs of space at a latency 10.1 seconds. There is sort of a space/speed ratio that has to be met. Increase the speed, and you lose space on the network. However, increase the speed of the connections (100 gig/sec if thats possible) and you can bypass this restriction.
