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Acacia

Acacia (Acacia Communications) is a coherent optical networking company, an early Matrix Partners portfolio company that was acquired by Cisco. Acacia designs and manufactures high-speed coherent optical interconnect solutions built on silicon photonics, low-power DSP, and 3D siliconization, including performance-optimized modules (AC1200, CIM 8), MSA pluggable modules (CFP, CFP2, OSFP, QSFP-DD, QSFP28), and client optics components (PAM4 DSP, optical engines). These power AI scale-out and scale-across fabrics, data center interconnect, metro and long-haul networks, submarine cables, access and cable networks, and space communications. Acacia is a hardware/components provider and does not publish a public developer API or programmatic platform.

Acacia is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Frontier, Optical Networking, Silicon Photonics, and Semiconductors.

Acacia’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 2 more developer resources.

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8.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyFrontierOptical NetworkingSilicon PhotonicsSemiconductorsNetworking HardwareData Center InterconnectCoherent Optics

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 8.1/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Acacia Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Acacia
description: Acacia (Acacia Communications) is a coherent optical networking company, an early Matrix Partners portfolio company
  that was acquired by Cisco. Acacia designs and manufactures high-speed coherent optical interconnect solutions built on
  silicon photonics, low-power DSP, and 3D siliconization, including performance-optimized modules (AC1200, CIM 8), MSA pluggable
  modules (CFP, CFP2, OSFP, QSFP-DD, QSFP28), and client optics components (PAM4 DSP, optical engines). These power AI scale-out
  and scale-across fabrics, data center interconnect, metro and long-haul networks, submarine cables, access and cable networks,
  and space communications. Acacia is a hardware/components provider and does not publish a public developer API or programmatic
  platform.
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tags:
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- Frontier
- Optical Networking
- Silicon Photonics
- Semiconductors
- Networking Hardware
- Data Center Interconnect
- Coherent Optics
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  url: security/acacia-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
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- type: Blog
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- type: Support
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