# ArrowPoint

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

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.

## 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).

## Security (1)

- **Arrowpoint Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Infrastructure, Networking, Content Delivery, Load Balancing, Acquired, Historical

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