Lightera Networks
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. Ciena Corporation acquired Lightera Networks together with Marlborough, Massachusetts-based Omnia Communications Inc. for $980 million in stock in 1999, and the Lightera technology and team were absorbed into Ciena's optical core switching line. The company no longer operates as an independent entity and never published a public API, developer portal, or machine-readable interface; this profile is retained as a historical record of the Kleiner Perkins portfolio and is not an active API provider. NOTE: unrelated to the present-day lightera.com, a rebrand of Furukawa Electric / OFS optical fiber manufacturing (see x-disambiguation).
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Lightera Networks is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
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Kin Score
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Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Resources
Every other property we hold for Lightera Networks — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
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Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Lightera Networks is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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