In this paper, we comprehensively review the progress in the development of HCFs including fiber design, fabrication and parameters (with comparisons to conventional single-mode fibers) and support technologies like splicing and testing. Link Serve Private Limited, the leading IT based company in the Maldives has been serving the nation since the year 2002. With world renowned brands ranging from tools to major enterprise solutions of software and hardware, Link Serve brings Maldives closer to the growing innovations and. © 2024 E-Talk Maldives. This investment will build on the Australia Connect initiative, furthering the reach, reliability, and resilience of digital connectivity across the Indian Ocean. Hollow-core optical fibers (HCFs) have unique properties like low latency, negligible optical nonlinearity, wide low-loss spectrum, up to 2100 nm, the ability to carry high power, and potentially lower loss then solid-core single-mode fibers (SMFs). These features make them very promising for. For decades, optical fibers have relied on a solid glass core to guide light and have formed the backbone of global telecommunications. However, glass imposes a fundamental physical limitation because light travels through it approximately 30 percent slower than through air. Light travels about 50% faster in a hollow core compared to a solid silica core of conventional optical fiber.