aid: acacia
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/acacia.png
name: Acacia
description: 'Acacia (Acacia Communications) is a coherent optical networking company, an early Matrix
  Partners portfolio company that was acquired by Cisco. Acacia designs and manufactures high-speed
  coherent optical interconnect solutions built on silicon photonics, low-power DSP, and 3D siliconization,
  including performance-optimized modules (AC1200, CIM 8), MSA pluggable modules (CFP, CFP2, OSFP,
  QSFP-DD, QSFP28), and client optics components (PAM4 DSP, optical engines). These power AI scale-out
  and scale-across fabrics, data center interconnect, metro and long-haul networks, submarine cables,
  access and cable networks, and space communications. Acacia is a hardware/components provider and does
  not publish a public developer API or programmatic platform.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/acacia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- matrix-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Frontier
- Optical Networking
- Silicon Photonics
- Semiconductors
- Networking Hardware
- Data Center Interconnect
- Coherent Optics
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/acacia-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://acacia-inc.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://acacia-inc.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://acacia-inc.com/support-center/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence