Customer Focus, Disruptive Innovation, Trusted Reliability
We are Acacia
At Acacia, we are on a mission to transform cloud and communication networks with innovative silicon-based high speed optical interconnect products that help customers solve their most difficult challenges.
Acacia's products enhance network performance by improving the capabilities of optical equipment, routers and switches while simultaneously reducing operating costs for network equipment.
Customer Focus
At Acacia, customers are at the center of everything we do. Our new look aims to reinforce Acacia’s unwavering dedication to customer collaboration and satisfaction. By continuing to closely collaborate and deepen our understanding of customer needs and challenges, Acacia can continue to develop optical networking solutions that empower customers to thrive.
Disruptive Innovation
Acacia has demonstrated a rapid pace of innovation through the years. We have redefined what is possible with the optical interconnect by continually raising the bar on performance, cost, and power consumption. Every milestone we have achieved has further advanced our customers capabilities by enabling them to expand their bandwidth, deliver faster networks and offer more services.
Extraordinary People with Technology Expertise
Acacia’s disruptive innovation requires a team with a broad range of capabilities. Its engineering and management teams not only have extensive experience in optical systems and networking, but they are industry leaders in specific technical areas, such as silicon photonics and algorithm development. This unique expertise is what enables Acacia to deliver industry-first technology and products that raise the bar on performance, cost, power and density.
Our Journey
Innovation is in our DNA and at the core of what we do every day. Founded in 2009, our founders recognized a market opportunity leveraging silicon photonics and, as a result, built a new kind of technology company.
June - Acacia founded by Mehrdad Givehchi, Benny P. Mikkelsen, and Christian J. Rasmussen to siliconize optical interconnects
AC100 100G coherent MSA begins volume production and shipments
March - Acacia is first to ship samples of a pluggable coherent 100G CFP module, AC-100
March -Announces industry’s first 100G coherent transceiver in a single Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) package
March - Announces the industry's first flex-rate coherent 400G transceiver module, the AC-400
March - Introduces CFP2-ACO based on silicon photonic PIC
May - Acacia goes public; completes IPO
November - Samples industry's first coherent CFP2
March - Acacia demonstrates 1.2 Tbps AC1200 coherent module for DCI, metro, and long-haul
March - Samples multiple variants in its family of 400G pluggable modules including 400ZR, OpenZR+ and Open ROADM MSA
October - Unveils edge and access network portfolio in QSFP-DD and CFP2 form factors
March - Cisco completes its acquisition of Acacia
September - Announces CIM 8, the industry’s first 1.2T pluggable coherent module, powered by the Jannu 5nm DSP
March - Continues multi-haul module leadership with more than 100K Pico DSP ports shipped, now in 100+ networks and selected by 3 of the 4 largest hyperscalers
March - Introduces the Bright 400ZR+ and ER1 400G QSFP-DD coherent pluggable modules
Acacia reinforces customer focus, innovation, and reliability with new look as an adjacent brand to Cisco
Introduces 800ZR and 800 ZR+ with Interop PCS QSFP and OSFP and 400G QSFP-DD for Ultra Long Haul