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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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyNetworkingWirelessWi-FiAccess PointsEnterprise NetworkingLocation ServicesAcquiredDefunct

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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  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.
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