Cortina Systems

Cortina Systems, Inc. was a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that designed high-speed communications and networking integrated circuits for optical transport, carrier Ethernet, framer/mapper and PHY devices, and broadband access (EPON/GPON and DSL). The company grew through acquisitions and was itself acquired by Inphi Corporation in 2014; Inphi later merged into Marvell Technology in 2021, and the cortina-systems.com domain now redirects to Marvell. Cortina was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners. It is a hardware semiconductor business with no public developer platform or API surface, so no API artifacts apply.

Cortina Systems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, Networking, Telecommunications, and Optical Networking.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySemiconductorsNetworkingTelecommunicationsOptical NetworkingHardwareFabless SemiconductorAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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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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name: Cortina Systems
description: Cortina Systems, Inc. was a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company founded in 2001 and headquartered in
  Sunnyvale, California, that designed high-speed communications and networking integrated circuits for optical transport,
  carrier Ethernet, framer/mapper and PHY devices, and broadband access (EPON/GPON and DSL). The company grew through acquisitions
  and was itself acquired by Inphi Corporation in 2014; Inphi later merged into Marvell Technology in 2021, and the cortina-systems.com
  domain now redirects to Marvell. Cortina was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners.
  It is a hardware semiconductor business with no public developer platform or API surface, so no API artifacts apply.
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- Networking
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