Corning

Corning Optical Communications is a part of Corning Incorporated, a leading innovator in materials science that has been inventing life-changing products and technologies since 1851.

Since pioneering the telecommunications revolution with the invention of low-loss optical fiber in 1970, Corning Optical Communications has continuously innovated to enhance the speed and capacity of optical networks, while reducing installation costs. As network usage proliferates and new technologies develop, causing a skyrocketing demand for bandwidth, Corning is responding with innovations for fibre to the premise (FTTP), wireless technology, in-building networks, and data centres.

The data center business is one of our fastest-growing segments, driven by the increasing need for more bandwidth to support new, data-intensive technologies and applications, and the surge in AI adoption. Some of the main challenges that the data center industry faces relate to skilled labor shortages, the difficulty of building future-forward scalable networks in a timely manner, and the need for future-forward fiber innovations to address density, scalability, and deployment. We assist the industry in overcoming these challenges with pre-connectorized solutions designed with the 4s principles in mind: speed, size, simplicity, and sustainability.

Corning is continuously innovating to optimize the speed, capacity, and scalability of hyperscale, multi-tenant, and private data centers. Our EDGE™, EDGE8®, and interconnect solutions with RocketRibbon™ extreme-density cables enable future-forward networks ready for AI demand. These innovations draw on Corning’s world-leading expertise in glass science, ceramic science, and optical physics. We apply everything we’ve learned from our decades of experience in designing data center solutions, which are found in more than 50,000 data centers across over 30 countries worldwide.

Generative AI (Gen AI) is the current big innovation and demand driver in DC. It is transforming how the world creates and processes data, as well as the data center itself. The large language models foundational to Gen AI require a dense neural network where every pathway consists of optical fiber – more than 10 times more fiber than a legacy data center architecture. Corning has been preparing for this trend for years. We’ve invented new optical solutions that help data center operators swiftly get these dense, next-generation networks up and running. We’re deploying these solutions today with the world’s leading hyperscale data center operators, ushering in the age of Generative AI. The growth of the data center industry calls for ongoing technological support, local expertise, and knowledge to continue conceiving, building, and maintaining resilient infrastructure that can support AI and tackle the new challenges that the technology poses. Therefore, Corning has a significant footprint in EMEA and offers an extensive DC range to enable more industry opportunities.