# Avanex

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/avanex/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 0.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 0.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Optical Networking, Fiber Optics, Photonics, Hardware, Telecommunications, Semiconductors, Defunct

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