optical-networking

Joint Kubernetes compute and optical path/spectrum orchestration with GNPy.

An emulation platform for exposing and de-risking system-integration problems around reconfigurable optical networks before real OCS hardware is available.

🥈2nd Place (Ciena Coding Challenge 2026) | C-based optical network router simulator using UDP microservices for port, connection, traffic, and CLI management.

Vendor-agnostic gNMI server that bridges NETCONF devices to gNMI clients

"DWDM optical network planning, monitoring, and automation toolkit"

Symmorphix — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Symmorphix, Inc. was a materials-science company founded in 1998 and based in Sunnyvale, California, that developed and manufactured advanced amorphous dielectric and optical thin films for the optical-networking and communications industries.

Cerent — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Cerent Corporation was a Petaluma, California optical-networking startup, founded in the mid-1990s and backed by Kleiner Perkins, that built the Cerent 454 — a compact next-generation SONET multiservice provisioning platform that collapsed traditional add-drop mult

Infinera — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Infinera is a vertically integrated optical networking and DWDM transport equipment vendor, known for its in-house photonic integrated circuits, coherent optical engines (ICE), XR optics, and the GX, Groove, and FlexILS system lines used by carriers, cloud/intern

BTI Systems (Juniper) — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. BTI Systems was an Ottawa, Ontario based supplier of cloud and metro packet-optical networking systems and software, best known for the BTI 7800 Series Packet Optical Transport platform, the BTI 800 Series, and the proNX family of management software

Cinta Networks — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. 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 integ

Acacia — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. 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

Tellabs — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Tellabs is a networking infrastructure vendor focused on Passive Optical LAN (OLAN) and broadband access for enterprises, government, and service providers. Its portfolio includes the Passive Optical LAN solution, the Tellabs 1000 MSAP broadband digital loop carri

Oni Systems — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. ONI Systems Inc. was an optical networking equipment company that built optical switching and transport systems for metropolitan-area networks during the fiber-optic boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Inphi — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Inphi Corporation (formerly NYSE: IPHI) was a fabless semiconductor company that designed high-speed analog and mixed-signal interconnect components -- SerDes, PAM4 DSPs, optical DSPs, and coherent DSPs -- used to move data across networks and inside data centers, f

Sedona Systems — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Sedona Systems was an Israeli deep-tech networking company (multi-layer / multi-domain network optimization and hierarchical control for optical and IP transport networks) surfaced as a portfolio company of bessemer-venture-partners.

LightLogic — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. LightLogic was an optoelectronics company founded in January 1998 and headquartered in Newark, California. It designed and manufactured highly integrated optical modules — transmitters and receivers — for high-speed (10 Gb/s and up) fiber optic telecommunicatio

Lightera Networks — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Lightera Networks Inc. was a Cupertino, California optical networking equipment startup backed by Kleiner Perkins. It built optical core switching systems for carrier transport networks during the late-1990s buildout of long-haul optical infrastructure.

Newport Communications — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. 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.

Tejas Networks — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Tejas Networks is an India-based telecommunications networking products company (part of the Tata group) that designs and manufactures a wall-to-wall portfolio of wireline and wireless networking equipment for telecom carriers, internet service providers, u

Avanex — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Avanex Corporation was a fiber-optic components manufacturer founded in 1997 and headquartered in Fremont, California, backed by Mayfield along with Crosspoint Venture Partners, JAFCO America and Sequoia Capital.