# EFFECT Photonics

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/effect-photonics/  
**Website:** https://effectphotonics.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

EFFECT Photonics is an optical-semiconductor company headquartered at High Tech Campus 37 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with sites in the United Kingdom, the United States and Taiwan. Spun out of Eindhoven University of Technology, it designs and manufactures coherent optical transceiver subsystems and monolithically integrated Indium Phosphide (InP) photonic integrated circuits, including its pico and nano Integrable Tunable Laser Assemblies for 100G, 400G and 800G coherent links across telecom access and metro networks, data-center interconnect and AI scale-across infrastructure. It operates no developer API programme and publishes no product, network-management or transceiver-control API, no developer portal, no SDK and no pricing. It is catalogued here because its corporate website runs a live WordPress REST API with 290 discoverable routes — including a publicly readable optical-product catalogue with hardware taxonomies (product line, form factor, output power, tuning range, operating temperature, target application, management interface) and a first-party `effect/v1` namespace — and because that same install exposes two Model Context Protocol servers guarded by an OAuth 2.1 authorization server the host advertises through RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 metadata.

## Kin Score — 40.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 54.1 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 32.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 65.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 54.1 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (6)

- **EFFECT Photonics Wp/v2 API** — WordPress core content API (posts, pages, media, taxonomies, users, settings) plus the site's custom post types — products, careers, events, partners, team members and FAQs — an...
- **EFFECT Photonics Effect/v1 API** — EFFECT Photonics' own custom REST namespace — a careers synchronisation trigger (POST /effect/v1/careers/sync, observed HTTP 401 anonymously) and a GLB 3D-model position endpoin...
- **EFFECT Photonics MCP API** — Model Context Protocol servers exposed by the WordPress MCP adapter. Both servers require authentication (observed HTTP 401 anonymously); the OAuth server answers with a correct...
- **EFFECT Photonics Wp Abilities/v1 API** — WordPress Abilities API — the registry of named abilities an agent may discover and run, and the surface the MCP adapter projects into tools. Read access is capability-gated (ob...
- **EFFECT Photonics Oembed/1.0 API** — oEmbed discovery and proxy endpoints.
- **EFFECT Photonics Root API** — REST API index / namespace discovery, plus the WordPress batch/v1 request batching endpoint.

## MCP servers (1)

- **effect-photonics-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Effect Photonics Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **Effect Photonics Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Effect Photonics Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Photonics, Optical Networking, Optical Transceivers, Photonic Integrated Circuits, Semiconductors, Telecommunications, Data Center Interconnect, Hardware, Model Context Protocol, WordPress, Netherlands

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/effect-photonics/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.