Airespace

Airespace, Inc. (formerly Black Storm Networks) was an American enterprise networking systems company founded in 2001 by Pat Calhoun, Bob Friday, Bob O'Hara and Ajay Mishra, manufacturing wireless LAN access points and the controllers that managed them. Airespace pioneered the centralized AP-controller architecture for rapid enterprise Wi-Fi deployment and authored the Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP), the direct precursor to the IETF CAPWAP standard, and was first to market with integrated Wi-Fi location tracking. It was venture backed by Storm Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Fidelity Investments and Battery Ventures, and shipped OEM equipment through NEC, Alcatel and Nortel. Cisco Systems acquired Airespace in 2005 for $450 million and merged its products into the Cisco Aironet line. The company no longer operates independently and publishes no API, developer portal or documentation; the airespace.com domain is parked and listed for sale.

Airespace is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, Wireless, Wi-Fi, and Access Points.

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Company Networking Wireless Wi-Fi Access Points Enterprise Networking Location Services Acquired Defunct

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aid: airespace
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/airespace.png
name: Airespace
description: Airespace, Inc. (formerly Black Storm Networks) was an American enterprise networking systems company founded
  in 2001 by Pat Calhoun, Bob Friday, Bob O'Hara and Ajay Mishra, manufacturing wireless LAN access points and the controllers
  that managed them. Airespace pioneered the centralized AP-controller architecture for rapid enterprise Wi-Fi deployment
  and authored the Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP), the direct precursor to the IETF CAPWAP standard, and was first
  to market with integrated Wi-Fi location tracking. It was venture backed by Storm Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Fidelity
  Investments and Battery Ventures, and shipped OEM equipment through NEC, Alcatel and Nortel. Cisco Systems acquired Airespace
  in 2005 for $450 million and merged its products into the Cisco Aironet line. The company no longer operates independently
  and publishes no API, developer portal or documentation; the airespace.com domain is parked and listed for sale.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/airespace/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-acquired
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: cisco
x-acquired-year: 2005
x-acquired-amount-usd: 450000000
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- Wireless
- Wi-Fi
- Access Points
- Enterprise Networking
- Location Services
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
common:
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airespace
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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