News and BusinessMicrosoft has announced it’s acquisition of Lumenisity® Limited, the Southampton University spin-off which developed hollow core fibre (HCF). Lumenisity’s NANF and DNANF cables won successive ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards in 2021 and 2022 respectively, for demonstrating the lowest attenuation achieved of any hollowcore fibre and over a broader range of operating wavelengths. The announcement follows […]
News and BusinessAmerican media company and Comcast, has announced what it believes to be the first-ever end-to-end deployment of hollowcore fibre by an ISP. The hollowcore fibre, supplied by UK-based Lumenisity, offers significantly lower latency than traditional fibres and over time will provide critical performance attributes. These fibres will help power Comcast’s network and support the delivery […]
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 […]
Applications and ResearchA recent demonstration of the ultimate reach performance of Lumenisity’s NANF® hollowcore cable suggests that there appears to be no fundamental limits to the technology’s data transmission distances, according to the company. The demonstration was carried out by the Politecnico di Torino university and the LINKS Foundation research group in their joint PhotoNext lab facility. […]
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 ProductsBT says it is trailing hollow core fibre at its labs in Adastral Park, Ipswich, in a collaborative project with Southampton University spin out company Lumenisity and Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) mobile vendor Mavenir. BT researchers are using a 10-kilometre-long hollow core fibre cable provided by Lumenisity, which has a hollow, air filled centre […]
Technologies and ProductseuNetworks Fiber UK Limited, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company, has deployed its first ultra low latency cable solution based on NANF® hollowcore fibre. Lumenisity® Limited supplied its CoreSmart® cable solution which is live between digital reality company Interxion and the London Stock Exchange. Lumenisity claims this is the first commercially available deployment of hollowcore […]
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 […]