ArrowPoint Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARPT) was a networking company based in Acton, Massachusetts that built content switches — Layer 4-7 "web switches" that inspected HTTP content, cookies and URLs to route and load-balance traffic across web server farms, CDNs and hosting providers. Founded in 1997 and backed by Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and Accel Partners, it IPO'd in early 2000 and was acquired by Cisco Systems in a stock deal announced 2000-05-05 and completed 2000-06-23, valued at roughly $5.7 billion. Its CSS 11000 series and WebNS software became a Cisco product line that has since reached end-of-life and been retired. ArrowPoint no longer operates as an independent company: it publishes no developer portal, no documentation, no APIs and no SDKs, and the arrowpoint.com domain — still delegated to Cisco nameservers — serves no live web or API surface. This profile is retained as a historical record of a Matrix Partners portfolio exit.
ArrowPoint is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure, Networking, Content Delivery, and Load Balancing.
aid: arrowpoint
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/arrowpoint.png
name: ArrowPoint
description: 'ArrowPoint Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARPT) was a networking company based in Acton, Massachusetts that built
content switches — Layer 4-7 "web switches" that inspected HTTP content, cookies and URLs to route and load-balance traffic
across web server farms, CDNs and hosting providers. Founded in 1997 and backed by Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture
Partners and Accel Partners, it IPO''d in early 2000 and was acquired by Cisco Systems in a stock deal announced 2000-05-05
and completed 2000-06-23, valued at roughly $5.7 billion. Its CSS 11000 series and WebNS software became a Cisco product
line that has since reached end-of-life and been retired. ArrowPoint no longer operates as an independent company: it publishes
no developer portal, no documentation, no APIs and no SDKs, and the arrowpoint.com domain — still delegated to Cisco nameservers
— serves no live web or API surface. This profile is retained as a historical record of a Matrix Partners portfolio exit.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/arrowpoint/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- matrix-partners
- north-bridge-venture-partners
- accel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: cisco
x-acquired-date: '2000-06-23'
x-acquisition-value-usd: 5700000000
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Networking
- Content Delivery
- Load Balancing
- Acquired
- Historical
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
name: Domain Security Probe
url: security/arrowpoint-domain-security.yml
- type: Acquisition
name: Cisco Systems Completes Acquisition of ArrowPoint
url: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2000/m06/cisco-systems-completes-acquisition-of-arrowpoint.html
- type: Acquisition
name: Cisco Systems to Acquire ArrowPoint Communications
url: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2000/m05/cisco-systems-to-acquire-arrowpoint-communications.html
- type: ProductArchive
name: Cisco CSS 11000 Series Content Services Switches (retired ArrowPoint product line)
url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/obsolete/application-networking-services/cisco-css-11000-series-content-services-switches.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
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