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2009
the-founders-1

June 2009 Acacia founded by Mehrdad Givehchi, Benny P. Mikkelsen, and Christian J. Rasmussen to siliconize optical interconnects

2010
early-2010

Early 2010 Raj Shanmugaraj joins as CEO

2011
coherent-msa

AC100 100G coherent MSA begins volume production and shipments

lab-expansion

March 2011 Company triples lab facilities to accommodate rapid growth

2014
acacia-cfp-left

March 2014 Acacia is first to ship samples of a pluggable coherent 100G CFP module, AC-100

march-2014

March 2014 Announces industry’s first 100G coherent transceiver in a single Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) package

inc-500

August 2014 Acacia ranked fifth in Inc. 500 List

2015
ac-400

March 2015 Announces the industry’s first flex-rate coherent 400G transceiver module, the AC-400

2016
cfp2

March 2016 Introduces CFP2-ACO based on silicon photonic PIC

may-2016

May 2016 Acacia goes public; completes IPO

cfp2

Nov 2016 Samples industry’s first coherent CFP2-DCO

2017
acacia-building

May 2017 Marks Company Growth With Office Expansion

leadership-team

June 2017 Acacia Communications’ CEO and Founders Named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2017 in New England

2018
ac1200

Mar 2018 Acacia demonstrates 1.2 Tbps AC1200 coherent module for DCI, metro, and long-haul

marea-trial

Dec 2018 AC1200 enables first 400G transmission across 6,600km Trans-Atlantic Marea Cable

2019
AC1200-SC2

September 2019 Introduces the AC1200-SC2 coherent 1.2T single-chip, single-channel module

2020

March 2020 Samples multiple variants in its family of 400G pluggable modules including 400ZR, OpenZR+ and Open ROADM MSA

QSFP-DD-and-CFP2-DCO

October 2020 Unveils edge and access network portfolio in QSFP-DD and CFP2-DCO form factors

2021
Cisco-acquires-Acacia

March 2021 Cisco completes its acquisition of Acacia

CIM-8

September 2021 Announces CIM 8, the industry’s first 1.2T pluggable coherent module, powered by the Jannu 5nm DSP

2022
Pico-DSP-port-forms

March 2022 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

Bright-400ZR+-ER1-400G-QSFP-DD

March 2022 Introduces the Bright 400ZR+ and ER1 400G QSFP-DD coherent pluggable modules

2023
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