Scalability

[ParkerDiamond]

Wrote some stuff for this. Generally talking about how we can use this like a normal router setup but with a long pipe in the middle.

"Since SARATOGA only needs to alter conventional network traffic at one point on the transmission process, it scales well with current network devices. The endpoints support 802.11 and Ethernet connections with client devices, so the devices available in Internet-connected regions should operate without any issue on SARATOGA. Moreover, caching, data compression, and forward error correction reduce the bandwidth constraints on the long-distance radio connection between disconnected/connected regions, so the links should support moderate amounts of users for a given disconnected location.

The support for current generation devices, like smart phones and laptops, allows users in the disconnected region to quickly join the connected world with the same technology. This generality will allow transferability of new developments between these regions and allow the disconnected regions to develop technologically alongside the connected world. Moreover, additional sending/receiving channels and substations can be added to the SARATOGA network topology to support more concurrent users, as the community grows. If the individual point-to-point links ever become overwhelmed, the wireless nature of the topology allows to transition to other topologies, like a mesh network, for congestion-aware routing. In an extreme case, a dense enough mesh of this protocol could implement a high-latency border-gateway protocol (BGP), much like the internet of the connected world."

[jaredthecoder]

Still needs condensing. We're 80 characters over in the non-grayed out version in the doc

[ParkerDiamond]

Added to Fluxx application -- considered closed.