News and BusinessOptions Technology, which facilitate access to hundreds of exchanges and capital markets worldwide, has announced the successful completion of its 100Gb core network upgrades across all major London colocation sites, using hollow core fibre. The resulting reduction in latency and increase in capacity means Options can expand its services with newly available routes and latency […]
Technologies and ProductsSouthampton University spin-off Lumenisity® Limited, has released a new generation of hollowcore fibre, DNANF®. The company says the technology has the lowest attenuation of any hollowcore fibre reported to date, and in doing so surpasses the attenuation of conventional germanium-doped single-mode fibre (SMF) in the O and C bands. DNANF is Lumenisity’s latest evolution of […]
News and BusinesseuNetworks Fiber UK Ltd, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company, has deployed a seven kilometre hollowcore fibre link between Interxion LON1: A digital realty company data centre, and The London Stock Exchange’s new data centre in London’s Docklands, using ultra low latency CoreSmart® cable. Lumenisity® supplied its CoreSmart® cable which is based on NANF® hollowcore […]
Applications and ResearchBT says it has achieved a milestone in the development of quantum-secure communications by conducting the world’s first trial of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) over hollow core fibre cable, from Southampton University spin out, Lumenisity® Limited. This summer, BT began trials of a new type of optical fibre – Nested Anti-Resonant Nodeless Fibre (NANF) hollow […]
Technologies and ProductsLumenisity® Limited has debuted what it claims is the world’s first deployable NANF® based hollowcore fibre optic cables, Hollowcore TradeSmart® and CoreSmart®, which boast 10Gbps, 40 channel DWDM transmission over 10km links. The CoreSmart cables offer high bandwidth and longer reach for Data Centre Interconnects (DCIs) including Edge and 5G xHaul. Recent trials by UK […]
Technologies and ProductsCable maker Lumenisity® Limited, has announced the introduction of its hollow-core CoreSmart™ fibre cable solutions for DWDM operation over links in excess of 10km. Lumenisity’s CoreSmart hollow-core cable uses a unique nested anti-resonant nodeless fibre (NANF™) patented technology. The previous generation of hollow-core design, photonic bandgap fibre (PBGF), is inherently multi-moded and requires complex solutions […]
Applications and ResearchResearchers from the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics at the University of Southampton have demonstrated a new improvement in hollow-core fibre performance. The research team reckons the demo underlines the technology’s potential to soon eclipse current optical fibres. Hollow-core fibres replace conventional glass cores with gas or a vacuum to enable a range of […]
Applications and ResearchThe University of Southampton’s Optoelectronic Research Centre (ORC), based in the Zepler Institute of Photonics and Nanoelectronics (UK), has announced significant breakthroughs in hollow-core fibre (HCF) technology. It presented its “record results” in sessions at the ECOC 2019 conference in Dublin. Hollow-core fibres are optical fibres where the conventional glass in the core is replaced […]