ArrowPoint

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.

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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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CompanyInfrastructureNetworkingContent DeliveryLoad BalancingAcquiredHistorical

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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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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Acquisition

Acquisition

Acquisition

Acquisition

ProductArchive

ProductArchive

Source (apis.yml)

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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.'
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- type: Acquisition
  name: Cisco Systems Completes Acquisition of ArrowPoint
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  name: Cisco Systems to Acquire ArrowPoint Communications
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- type: ProductArchive
  name: Cisco CSS 11000 Series Content Services Switches (retired ArrowPoint product line)
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ArrowPoint

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Arrowpoint Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Other 3

Source (apis.yml)