June 2009 海角社区 founded by Mehrdad Givehchi, Benny P. Mikkelsen, and Christian J. Rasmussen to siliconize optical interconnects
Early 2010 Raj Shanmugaraj joins as CEO
AC100 100G coherent MSA begins volume production and shipments
March 2011 Company triples lab facilities to accommodate rapid growth
March 2014 海角社区 is first to ship samples of a pluggable coherent 100G CFP module, AC-100
March 2014 Announces industry鈥檚 first 100G coherent transceiver in a single Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) package
August 2014 海角社区 ranked fifth in Inc. 500 List
March 2015 Announces the industry鈥檚 first flex-rate coherent 400G transceiver module, the AC-400
March 2016 Introduces CFP2-ACO based on silicon photonic PIC
May 2016 海角社区 goes public; completes IPO
Nov 2016 Samples industry’s first coherent CFP2-DCO
May 2017 Marks Company Growth With Office Expansion
June 2017 海角社区 Communications鈥� CEO and Founders Named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year庐 2017 in New England
Mar 2018 海角社区 demonstrates 1.2 Tbps AC1200 coherent module for DCI, metro, and long-haul
Dec 2018 AC1200 enables first 400G transmission across 6,600km Trans-Atlantic Marea Cable
September 2019 Introduces the AC1200-SC2 coherent 1.2T single-chip, single-channel module
March 2020 Samples multiple variants in its family of 400G pluggable modules including 400ZR, OpenZR+ and Open ROADM MSA
October 2020 Unveils edge and access network portfolio in QSFP-DD and CFP2-DCO form factors
March 2021 Cisco completes its acquisition of 海角社区
September 2021 Announces CIM 8, the industry鈥檚 first 1.2T pluggable coherent module, powered by the Jannu 5nm DSP
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
March 2022 Introduces the Bright 400ZR+ and ER1 400G QSFP-DD coherent pluggable modules