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BT has been experimenting with hollow-core fibre to understand how it could benefit its network. The results are promising.
Professor Andrew Lord“We are looking at all the use cases and it is a bit early to say which one is the killer one but they are all interesting,” says Professor Andrew Lord, BT’s head of optical network research.
“There are so many parameters [of hollow-core fibre] and all seem to be slightly or vastly better than single-mode fibre,” says Neil Parkin, optical networks research manager at BT.
The service provider is working with hollow-core fibre start-up, Lumenisity, and 5G software networking specialist, Mavenir.
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