Emerging optical networking requirements driven by AI architectures, state of the art switching technology, and transceiver bandwidth advancements are exceeding the capabilities of legacy optical cabling infrastructure in the data center. Data center owners, whether operating enterprise, multi-tenant, cloud or hyperscale data centers, are faced with new networking designs demanding significantly higher density fiber optic cabling and connectivity solutions. As the demand for optical fiber needs increases to support new data center technologies and advancements, density, speed of deployment efficiency, performance and reliability are critical requirements for the data center cabling infrastructure.​

The MMC connector ushers in a new era of high density, low insertion loss connectivity by combining a reduced size, MT-style ferrule (TMT) with a novel very small form factor (VSFF) connector embodiment to satisfy these requirements across multiple data center application spaces, including structured cabling, high fiber count data center interconnects, transceivers and on-board optics.