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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. The Lightera technology and team were absorbed into Ciena's optical core switching line.
- Status: acquired (1999)
- Acquired by: Ciena Corporation
- Backed by: kleiner-perkins
- Sector: hardtech / optical networking
This entity is defunct and never published a public API, developer portal, SDK, or machine-readable interface. The enrichment pipeline was run on 2026-07-19 and produced no artifacts — there is nothing to harvest, and fabricating any would be unfaithful to the record. The profile is retained as a historical record of the Kleiner Perkins portfolio.
| Name | URL | Relationship |
|---|---|---|
| Lightera (Furukawa Electric / OFS) | https://lightera.com/ | Unrelated. Optical fiber and connectivity manufacturer in Norcross, Georgia — a rebrand unifying Furukawa Electric, OFS, and Furukawa Electric LatAm. Not venture-backed. Probed 2026-07-19: /developers, /developer, /api, /docs, /llms.txt, /.well-known/security.txt, /.well-known/api-catalog all returned HTTP 404 — no developer surface. |
| lightera.ai | https://lightera.ai/ | Unknown. Placeholder Squarespace "under construction" page as of 2026-07-19. |