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Just as its Openreach broadband provision division is ramping up the extent of its fibre network to deliver gigabit broadband across the country, UK telco BT ha.
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BT has started trials of hollow-core fibre optical networks to test if they can raise fixed-line speeds and produce mobile networks with lower latencies.
The telco is performing the trials at its R&D campus in Suffolk s Adastral Park and aims to deploy up to 10km of fibre. It also intends to test the suitability of hollow-core networks for other more niche tasks, such as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).
BT is working with American OpenRAN vendor Mavenir, as well as Lumenisity a startup spun out from the University of Southampton that specialises in hollow-core fibre networks.
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