End-to-end portfolio features Corning’s new Contour™ Flow Cable to help accelerate deployment of high-density data center interconnect networks

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today launched Corning GlassWorks AI™ solutions, a “one-stop shop” of customized data center products and services to help operators build the dense fiber 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 center 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 center networks by fitting double the fiber into existing cable diameters.

Inside the AI data center, 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 fiber connections within a data center 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 center,” said Sean Kelly, Vice President and Business Director for Corning’s Data Center Business Unit. “Our new Contour Flow cable is a great example of our innovations – helping data centers 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 fiber, a 40% smaller fiber offering improved bend resilience for high-density environments. With its smaller diameter, SMF-28 Contour fiber 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 Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), April 1-3 in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit our GlassWorks AI and Contour Flow Cable product pages and our media resource center.

About Corning Incorporated

Corning (www.corning.com) is one of the world’s leading innovators in materials science, with a 170-year track record of life-changing inventions. Corning applies its unparalleled expertise in glass science, ceramic science, and optical physics along with its deep manufacturing and engineering capabilities to develop category-defining products that transform industries and enhance people's lives. Corning succeeds through sustained investment in RD&E, a unique combination of material and process innovation, and deep, trust-based relationships with customers who are global leaders in their industries. Corning's capabilities are versatile and synergistic, which allows the company to evolve to meet changing market needs, while also helping our customers capture new opportunities in dynamic industries. Today, Corning's markets include optical communications, mobile consumer electronics, display, automotive, solar, semiconductors, and life sciences.

View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250326446780/en/