Zech (The ADVENT Group of Colorado Springs, CO) noted optical storage technology expert, a new commercial optical storage technology using UV light would probably have to be in the 200 nm range and would provide storage capacities of over 100 GB in a single layer.
Without the old layer of short-distance cables, this new Ethernet system will connect servers and storage drives directly to long-distance networks, making them accessible to each other from hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Its storage potential is enormous: Dr Sheats says that initially, a single layer of memory the size of a sheet of writing paper will be able to store one billion bytes (a gigabyte) of data.