Over the last four decades, the information capacity of these networks has increased by a factor of roughly ten million. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
All of this is achieved while still increasing the transaction capacity of the network. (bitcoinist.com)
Segregated Witness (SegWit) is a proposed soft - forking change to the Bitcoin protocol that, among other things, increases capacity of the network. (bitcoinmagazine.com)