Anchor Network Connects The Blueprint: Honghui Achieves Significant Success in Transformation and Upgrade

From September 10th to 12th, the 26th CIOE China Optoelectronics Expo was held in Shenzhen. Enterprises across the entire photonic industry competed and showcased their products on the same stage. Shanghai Honghui Communication Tech Corp (hereinafter referred to as "Honghui") and its subsidiary Shanghai Honghui Guanglian Communication Tech Corp. (hereinafter referred to as "Guanglian") participated in the exhibition with four themes: communication, data communication, laser, and medical. The concentrated display of related products indicated that Guanglian had successfully expanded its business from the communication field to the medical, laser, and data communication fields, and also demonstrated that Honghui had transformed and evolved on the road of upgrading and transformation, with booth number 11D63. Welcome to visit and exchange!

Honghui started with optical fiber and cable filling paste, then entered the PBT field, and finally made the two materials become industry leaders. In 2012, Honghui took the first step in transforming into the optical device field by introducing, absorbing, innovating, and conquering the PLC wafer technology, firmly controlling the processes of wafer design, growth, chip cutting, and grinding, and expanding the industrial chain to PLC optical device coupling and packaging fields. After more than ten years of meticulous industrial cultivation, Honghui has become a well-known manufacturer in the PLC optical device field and has established long-term cooperative relationships with domestic and foreign companies.

If the PLC chip is the key "chip" that Honghui overcame on the road of upgrading and transformation, then the thin-film chip is the other "chip" that was vigorously picked up. In 2021, Honghui invested over 16 million US dollars to acquire the wholly-owned subsidiary Shanghai Guanglian Communication Technology Corp of US-based Guanglian, and began to venture into the high-end optical coating field. Over the past four years, Guanglian has deeply rooted the industry through team building, equipment upgrading, and process innovation. Now, Guanglian has become a shining brand in the high-end optical coating field, not only having the ability to research, design, and supply WDM full series of thin-film chips, but also having already supplied 100G, 400G, 800G, and 1.6T thin-film chips in batches.

From PLC chip to thin-film chip, Honghui has created a development new pattern with "double chips" as the core, and the transformation from "double materials" to "double chips" has enabled Honghui to break through and transform through upgrading and transformation, building a new development highland.

The thin-film chip that excites new development momentum not only has extensive applications in the field of communication, but is also an indispensable key component in the fields of biomedicine and laser. With the continuous expansion of the global medical market and the rapid development of the domestic medical health industry, the market demand for medical optical thin-film chips is also constantly increasing. In recent years, thanks to the surge in demand in the autonomous driving market and the rapid rise of emerging fields such as drones and robots, the rapid growth of the global lidar market has brought huge development opportunities to the lidar thin-film chip industry.

The layout of Lightlink in the field of communication has been increasingly perfected. To fully stimulate the new driving force for enterprise development and quickly enter the fields of biomedicine and laser, the Lightlink team has continuously carried out scientific research and breakthroughs, launched medical and laser thin-film chips, and achieved batch production, successfully completing the layout in these two fields. To promote the depth and breadth of the layout in the laser field, Lightlink has also established a team of doctors and set up a research and development center in Wuhan, promoting the research, verification and batch manufacturing and delivery of advanced laser and optical engine products. In the future, the biomedicine and laser sectors will become new engines for the company's business growth.

From the field of communication to the fields of medical and laser, Lightlink follows the main line of high-end optical coating, continuously enriching product types, and the business is "blossoming and spreading".

In the present era, we are at a crucial turning point from the "Information Superhighway" era to the "Smart Computing Power" era. The requirements for AI on network bandwidth, latency, and intelligent operation and maintenance have reached unprecedented heights. The network architecture is undergoing a revolutionary transformation. Against this backdrop, global digital transformation investment continues to grow, and operators' network upgrades (5G-A/6G, F5G/50G-PON), data center construction, enterprise cloud migration, and intelligent transformation have brought a trillion-dollar market space to the data center industry.

Facing the new blue ocean of data centers, Guanglian has responded in time and made precise layout. Besides providing high-performance AI data center optical module thin-film chips, it has also rapidly launched projects such as AWG packaging, Z-block, and AI data center LPO and CPO using "FAU + high-precision V-slot". AWG packaging and Z-block have already been supplied to customers in batches; FAU can provide customers with common PLC FA and high-speed RX/TXFA, as well as various customized FA. At the same time, it can produce core passive components MT-FA, MT-MT mini and MT-MT, and can customize various structures of MT products according to customer requirements. The V-slot for FA can also be customized for production to meet the diverse application needs of customers.

In the next ten years, "digitalization" is one of the most certain global development trends. Capturing the data center sector means capturing the driving force for the sustainable development of enterprises. Guanglian has focused on the data center track, broken through key technologies, achieved independent innovation, and empowered the entire enterprise's development, striving to achieve "leapfrogging" in the digital economy era.

This year, Honghui, with Guanglian as the main body, completed the integration of five optical component sections, and its business scope covers communication, data centers, lasers, and medical fields. The integration of the company's large component business is conducive to fully leveraging the synergy effect and forming a force to lay a solid foundation for the subsequent high-quality and large-scale development of the business. From two major materials to two major chips, Honghui has completed the expansion from optical communication materials to optical communication devices, crossing from the communication field to data centers, lasers, and medical fields, and completed the transformation and upgrade of the optical component business. Focusing on data centers, drawing up a blueprint, Honghui has opened up new paths with new thinking and achieved fruitful transformation and upgrading!