ArrowPoint Communications

ArrowPoint Communications, Inc. was a Massachusetts-based content-networking company that built "content smart" web switches for server load balancing, content delivery, and web caching in the late 1990s. After a January 2000 IPO it was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000 for approximately $5.7 billion in stock, and its technology became the basis of the Cisco Content Services Switch (CSS) product line. It has not operated as an independent company since the acquisition, and it exposes no public developer program, API, documentation, or other machine-readable surface today; this record is retained for network/portfolio lineage rather than active API enrichment.

ArrowPoint Communications is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, Load Balancing, Content Delivery, and Web Switching.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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CompanyNetworkingLoad BalancingContent DeliveryWeb SwitchingAcquiredCiscoHistorical

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Composite quality — 5.0/100 · 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 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: ArrowPoint Communications
description: ArrowPoint Communications, Inc. was a Massachusetts-based content-networking company that built "content smart"
  web switches for server load balancing, content delivery, and web caching in the late 1990s. After a January 2000 IPO it
  was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000 for approximately $5.7 billion in stock, and its technology became the basis of the
  Cisco Content Services Switch (CSS) product line. It has not operated as an independent company since the acquisition, and
  it exposes no public developer program, API, documentation, or other machine-readable surface today; this record is retained
  for network/portfolio lineage rather than active API enrichment.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/arrowpoint-communications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: cisco
x-acquired-year: '2000'
x-api-surface: none
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- Load Balancing
- Content Delivery
- Web Switching
- Acquired
- Cisco
- Historical
apis: []
maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence