aid: viaphoton
name: viaPhoton
description: >-
  viaPhoton is a Naperville, Illinois fiber optic connectivity manufacturer, founded in 2020, that
  designs and builds high-density fiber solutions for hyperscale and enterprise data centers, 5G
  and broadband access networks, and AI network fabrics. Its catalog spans inside-plant products
  (fiber trunks, fiber arrays, patch cords, MPO/MTP connectivity, structured cabling) and
  outside-plant products (outdoor fiber jumpers, fiber drop cables, outdoor trunks), produced in a
  domestic "micro-factory" model intended to shorten lead times against an industry that sources
  roughly 90% of fiber optic material offshore. viaPhoton sells through a configure-price-quote
  product configurator rather than a developer program; it publishes no public API, SDK, developer
  portal, or machine-readable API contract.
image: https://configure.viaphoton.com/img/logo_with_text.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/viaphoton/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-02'
modified: '2026-09-02'
tags:
- Company
- Fiber Optics
- Telecommunications
- Networking
- Data Centers
- Broadband
- Manufacturing
- Hardware
- Connectivity
- 5G
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Packages
  url: packages/viaphoton-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/viaphoton-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/viaphoton-rate-limits.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/viaphoton-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/viaphoton-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://viaphoton.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://viaphoton.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://viaphoton.com/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://viaphoton.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://viaphoton.com/privacy-policy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/viaPhoton
- type: Configurator
  url: https://configure.viaphoton.com/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/viaphoton_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-02'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    viaPhoton is a fiber optic cable-assembly manufacturer that sells through a configure-price-quote
    tool, not a developer program; STEP 0b contract discovery did surface one first-party API host
    (pp-api.viaphoton.com, the Node/Express backend of the public product configurator, keyed from
    the configurator page) but it serves no spec, reference, or discovery document, and every
    OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL, MCP and agent-card path 404s across all three viaPhoton hosts.
  evidence:
  - url: https://pp-api.viaphoton.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://pp-api.viaphoton.com/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://configure.viaphoton.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://viaphoton.com/llms.txt
    status: 202
  checked: '2026-09-02'