AFL, Corning, Sumitomo Electric and TeraHop form consortium to develop SDM4 MCF MSA

AFL, Corning, Sumitomo Electric, and TeraHop announced a collaboration to develop a new multi-source agreement called the SDM4 MCF MSA for a four-core multicore fiber design. The group said the MSA will define design, performance, and interoperability requirements for passive optical connections in data center applications. The collaboration targets short-reach interconnect applications operating in the O-band. The companies said they plan to finalize and publicly release the initial SDM4 MCF specification in the coming months.

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