Abstract: A real-time data acquisition and storage network for real-time acquisition and storage of analog and digital data from one or multiple network-connected data sources to one or multiple network-connected storage devices during a data recording session, and precise reconstruction of the acquired data from one or multiple of the network-connected storage devices during a playback session. The data source are connected to the network through one or multiple real-time data acquisition network (“R-T DAN”) modules which form one or multiple network-connected data acquisition nodes on the network. Each storage device forms a network-connected storage node on the network so that data acquired at any data acquisition node may be applied to the network and stored at any storage node during a data recording session. The stored data may be retrieved from the storage nodes through the network and routed to the data acquisition nodes for reconstruction of the data during a playback session.