On December 9, US time, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Lumenicity, the leader of the next generation hollow core fiber (HCF) solution in the UK ® Limited, the company’s innovative and industry-leading hollow fiber products provide fast, reliable and safe networks for global and enterprise large-scale institutional customers. This acquisition will expand Microsoft’s ability to further optimize its global cloud infrastructure to meet the strict delay and security requirements of Microsoft’s cloud platform and service customers. HCF technology can also be widely used in medical, financial services, manufacturing, retail and government network infrastructure.

The network and data center on which the above application scenarios depend need high-speed switching, enhanced security, increased bandwidth and high-capacity communication. HCF solutions have significant advantages in such requirements. For the public sector, HCF can provide enhanced security and intrusion monitoring for countries around the world. In the field of medical insurance, because HCF can transmit large volume data, it can help accelerate medical image detection and improve the ability of providers to ingest, save and share medical image data in the cloud. With the rise of digital economy, HCF can also help international financial institutions to seek fast and safe transactions in a wider range of regions.
Advantages of HCF
Lumenicity’s next-generation HCF uses the patented design of light transmission in the hollow core. Compared with the optical cable based on solid glass fiber core, its advantages are:
·The transmission speed of light in HCF can be 47% faster than that of standard quartz glass, thus improving the overall transmission speed and reducing the delay.
·Lumenicity’s innovative hollow fiber internal structure can enhance security and intrusion monitoring.
·By eliminating fiber nonlinearity and wider spectrum, it can reduce cost, increase bandwidth and improve network quality.
·In terms of ultra-low signal loss, it has the potential to realize the deployment of long-distance transmission without repeaters.