Newport Communications

NewPort Communications was a fabless semiconductor startup that developed mixed-signal integrated circuits for the high-speed optical networking market, including CMOS-based transceivers for 2.5-Gbit/s (OC-48) SONET/SDH applications. Founded in 1999, the company was backed by Mayfield Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Cisco Investments (roughly $28M across Series A and B) before being acquired by Broadcom on October 4, 2000 to strengthen Broadcom's networking semiconductor portfolio. It is a defunct company with no standalone public web presence and no API surface; this record is retained as a historical portfolio-company lead in the API Evangelist network.

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

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySemiconductorsNetworkingOptical NetworkingTelecommunicationsIntegrated CircuitsHardware

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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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description: NewPort Communications was a fabless semiconductor startup that developed mixed-signal integrated circuits for
  the high-speed optical networking market, including CMOS-based transceivers for 2.5-Gbit/s (OC-48) SONET/SDH applications.
  Founded in 1999, the company was backed by Mayfield Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Cisco Investments (roughly $28M
  across Series A and B) before being acquired by Broadcom on October 4, 2000 to strengthen Broadcom's networking semiconductor
  portfolio. It is a defunct company with no standalone public web presence and no API surface; this record is retained as
  a historical portfolio-company lead in the API Evangelist network.
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