The SKA Will Generate 700 Petabytes Per Year Across Two Continents. The Routing Problem Is Familiar.

VLBI already computes N(N-1)/2 baseline correlations between telescope pairs. QIS Protocol routes N(N-1)/2 outcome syntheses between distributed nodes. The math is identical. The architectural problem — synthesizing distributed signals into coherent intelligence without centralizing raw data — is the same in radio astronomy and healthcare. Here is why.