# Newport Communications

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/newport-communications/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 0.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 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, Semiconductors, Networking, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Integrated Circuits, Hardware

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