Corning has launched Corning® GlassWorks AI™ solutions, a “one-stop shop” of customised data centre products and services to help operators build the dense fibre infrastructure required for generative AI. The end-to-end portfolio provides industry-leading cable and connectivity solutions along with best-in-class network planning, design, and deployment support.
Operators face challenges of scale and density in meeting the infrastructure requirements of AI, both inside the data centre and in the long-haul networks that connect them. GlassWorks AI™ meets these needs with a wide array of technologies, including Corning’s new Contour™ Flow Cable. The cable accelerates and simplifies deployments of interconnected data centre networks by fitting double the fibre into existing cable diameters.
Inside the AI data centre, increasingly large clusters of graphical processing units, or GPUs, require a dense optical infrastructure on a massive scale. Corning’s GlassWorks AI™ solutions meet this challenge as well, with high-density cables, shuffle solutions, optical hardware, and MMC-based connector assemblies that can accommodate 36 times more fibre connections within a data centre rack unit than a legacy LC connector.
“With GlassWorks AI™, Corning is drawing on its world-leading expertise in materials science to create breakthrough products that expand the possibilities of generative AI for our customers, both inside and outside the data centre,” said Sean Kelly, Vice President and Business Director for Corning’s Data Centre Business Unit. “Our new Contour™ Flow cable is a great example of our innovations – helping data centres connect their city-to-city networks quickly and cost-effectively, delivering future-ready optical performance without the need for expensive infrastructure buildouts.”
At the heart of Contour™ Flow Cable is Corning® SMF-28® Contour fibre, a 40% smaller fibre offering improved bend resilience for high-density environments. With its smaller diameter, SMF-28 Contour fibre is the key enabler of the cable and other connectivity solutions in Corning’s GlassWorks AI™ portfolio – all designed to help operators meet the ever-increasing density requirements of AI.
Corning experts will be on hand to discuss GlassWorks AI™ and to showcase Contour™ Flow Cable, MMC connector assemblies, and other innovations in Booth 1643 at the 2025 Optical Fibre Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), April 1-3 in San Francisco, CA.
