aid: cinta-networks
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/cinta-networks.png
name: Cinta Networks
description: 'Cinta Networks, Incorporated was a venture-backed optical networking equipment
  startup of the dot-com era, funded in part by Battery Ventures and led by CEO John Vaughan.
  The company built the patented WAVEJunction product family, an architecture that integrated
  DWDM optical transport with optical switching in a single network element for metro, regional,
  and long-haul carrier networks, claiming capital-expense savings of more than 50 percent and
  operational savings of over 70 percent through modular, port-at-a-time growth, universal
  transponder cards, and dynamic wavelength reconfiguration across ring and mesh topologies.
  Public activity is visible from roughly 2000 to 2002, including a January 2002 WAVEJunction
  field-trial agreement with Pacific LightNet and a component supply arrangement with ADC.
  Cinta Networks appears to have ceased operations in the post-telecom-bust period: archived
  captures of cintanetworks.com show the site replaced by a parked domain-search page by 2004,
  and the domain no longer resolves in DNS as of July 2026. Cinta was a hardware manufacturer
  and never published a public developer API, developer portal, SDKs, or machine-readable API
  artifacts, so there is no API surface for this profile to describe. It is retained in the API
  Evangelist network as a historical Battery Ventures portfolio record.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cinta-networks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-evidence: 'cintanetworks.com has no DNS A or NS records as of 2026-07-20; Wayback
  Machine captures show real company content through 2002-03 and a parked domain-search page
  from 2004 onward, with the last capture on 2007-11-30.'
x-last-known-website: http://www.cintanetworks.com/
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Optical Networking
- DWDM
- Telecommunications
- Network Equipment
- Optical Switching
- Hardware
- Defunct
- Battery Ventures Portfolio
apis: []
common:
- type: Archive
  url: https://web.archive.org/web/20020331113717/http://www.cintanetworks.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1