{"id":152417,"date":"2022-12-10T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/microsoft-acquires-startup-developing-high-speed-cables-for-transmitting-data"},"modified":"2022-12-10T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:27:12","slug":"microsoft-acquires-startup-developing-high-speed-cables-for-transmitting-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/microsoft-acquires-startup-developing-high-speed-cables-for-transmitting-data","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft acquires startup developing high-speed cables for transmitting data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-acquires-startup-developing-high-speed-cables-for-transmitting-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft today <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/09\/microsoft-acquires-lumenisity-an-innovator-in-hollow-core-fiber-hcf-cable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that it acquired Lumenisity, a U.K.-based startup developing \u201chollow core fiber (HCF)\u201d technologies primarily for data centers and ISPs. Microsoft says that the purchase, the terms of which weren\u2019t disclosed, will \u201cexpand [its] ability to further optimize its global cloud infrastructure\u201d and \u201cserve Microsoft\u2019s cloud platform and services customers with strict latency and security requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HCF cables fundamentally combine optical fiber and coaxial cable. They\u2019ve been around since the \u201990s, but what Lumenisity brings to the table is a proprietary design with an air-filled center channel surrounded by a ring of glass tubes. The idea is that light can travel faster through air than glass; in a trial with Comcast in April, a single strand of Lumenisity HCF was reportedly able to deliver traffic rates ranging from 10 Gbps to 400 Gbps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHCF can provide benefits across a broad range of industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail and government,\u201d Girish Bablani, CVP of Microsoft\u2019s Azure Core business, wrote in a blog post. \u201cFor the public sector, HCF could provide enhanced security and intrusion detection for federal and local governments across the globe. In healthcare, because HCF can accommodate the size and volume of large data sets, it could help accelerate medical image retrieval, facilitating providers\u2019 ability to ingest, persist and share medical imaging data in the cloud. And with the rise of the digital economy, HCF could help international financial institutions seeking fast, secure transactions across a broad geographic region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today announced that it acquired Lumenisity, a U.K.-based startup developing \u201chollow core fiber (HCF)\u201d technologies primarily for data centers and ISPs. Microsoft says that the purchase, the terms of which weren\u2019t disclosed, will \u201cexpand [its] ability to further optimize its global cloud infrastructure\u201d and \u201cserve Microsoft\u2019s cloud platform and services customers with strict latency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1523,39,45,1490,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-computing","category-economics","category-finance","category-government","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}