Microsoft’s move to outsource hollow‑core fiber (HCF) production to established glass and fiber manufacturers marks a key inflection point for a technology that has long promised dramatic gains in latency, bandwidth and energy efficiency for cloud and AI workloads. Over the last week Microsoft...
Microsoft’s Azure Fibre R&D team — working with researchers from the University of Southampton and the Lumenisity spin‑out — has published results showing a hollow‑core (air‑cored) optical fiber with record low attenuation of 0.091 dB/km at 1,550 nm, a broad low‑loss spectral window, and...
