This webinar examines how AI workloads are shaping cable and connector design, influencing deployment strategies, and redefining performance requirements. Hollow-core fibers are reshaping optical technology, combining ultralow latency and unlocking applications in data centers, quantum communications, sensing, and high-power laser delivery. But moving from prototypes to stable, repeatable production requires dedicated manufacturing systems. This. Artificial intelligence is accelerating the need for ultra-high-capacity networks, driving innovation in fiber connectivity across all domains—from intra-datacenter links to campus networks, data center interconnect (DCI), and long-haul applications. (Reference: “Recent Progress in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Technology,” Journal of Lightwave. In light of the recent advances in hollow-core fiber (HCF) design and manufacturing, wide-scale deployments of this fiber type to realize next-generation optical transport networks may become viable in the foreseeable future, with benefits in terms of lower latency and improved capacity/reach. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are trained to replace the numerical solvers, accelerate the simulation of fibers. ORLANDO, Fla. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Relativity Networks, the leading at-scale provider of next-generation fiber-optic technology, has entered into a strategic partnership with Network Planning Solutions (NPS), to support commercial deployments of hollow-core fiber (HCF) infrastructure.