Avanex

Avanex Corporation was a fiber-optic components manufacturer founded in 1997 and headquartered in Fremont, California, backed by Mayfield along with Crosspoint Venture Partners, JAFCO America and Sequoia Capital. Avanex designed and built photonic processors, optical components, modules and subsystems used to raise the speed and capacity of fiber-optic communication networks, and went public on NASDAQ in February 2000 raising $216 million. In April 2009 Avanex merged with Bookham Technology to form Oclaro, and Oclaro was in turn acquired by Lumentum in December 2018. Avanex is no longer an operating company: it publishes no developer portal, documentation, or API of any kind, and the avanex.com domain is now a parked GoDaddy for-sale listing. This profile is retained as a historical portfolio-lineage record only.

Avanex is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Optical Networking, Fiber Optics, Photonics, and Hardware.

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CompanyOptical NetworkingFiber OpticsPhotonicsHardwareTelecommunicationsSemiconductorsDefunct

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name: Avanex
description: 'Avanex Corporation was a fiber-optic components manufacturer founded in 1997 and headquartered in Fremont, California,
  backed by Mayfield along with Crosspoint Venture Partners, JAFCO America and Sequoia Capital. Avanex designed and built
  photonic processors, optical components, modules and subsystems used to raise the speed and capacity of fiber-optic communication
  networks, and went public on NASDAQ in February 2000 raising $216 million. In April 2009 Avanex merged with Bookham Technology
  to form Oclaro, and Oclaro was in turn acquired by Lumentum in December 2018. Avanex is no longer an operating company:
  it publishes no developer portal, documentation, or API of any kind, and the avanex.com domain is now a parked GoDaddy for-sale
  listing. This profile is retained as a historical portfolio-lineage record only.'
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