# Airespace

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/airespace/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/airespace/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.