Barefoot Networks

Barefoot Networks was a computer-networking company founded in 2013 in Santa Clara, California, that designed and produced programmable network-switch silicon, systems, and software. Its flagship Tofino Intelligent Fabric Processor was the first end-user-programmable Ethernet switch ASIC, built on the Protocol Independent Switch Architecture (PISA) and programmed with the P4 language at line rates up to 12.8 Tbit/s. Developer tooling spanned the P4 Studio SDK, the Barefoot Runtime Interface (BRI) control-plane API, and the Tofino Native Architecture (TNA). Intel acquired Barefoot Networks in June 2019, folding the technology into Intel Tofino / Intel Intelligent Fabric Processors; the barefootnetworks.com corporate site now redirects into Intel, and the surviving open documentation lives in the barefootnetworks GitHub organization (notably the Open-Tofino repository publishing the public TNA and P4 architecture docs).

Barefoot Networks is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, Switches, P4, and Programmable Networking.

Barefoot Networks’ developer surface includes documentation and 3 more developer resources.

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7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Networking SwitchesP4Programmable NetworkingSDN Silicon Data Plane Intel

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Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.9 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Build 2

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IssueTracker

Source (apis.yml)

aid: barefoot-networks
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  callable_host: false
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  confidence: low
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  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/barefoot-networks.png
name: Barefoot Networks
description: Barefoot Networks was a computer-networking company founded in 2013 in Santa Clara, California, that designed
  and produced programmable network-switch silicon, systems, and software. Its flagship Tofino Intelligent Fabric Processor
  was the first end-user-programmable Ethernet switch ASIC, built on the Protocol Independent Switch Architecture (PISA) and
  programmed with the P4 language at line rates up to 12.8 Tbit/s. Developer tooling spanned the P4 Studio SDK, the Barefoot
  Runtime Interface (BRI) control-plane API, and the Tofino Native Architecture (TNA). Intel acquired Barefoot Networks in
  June 2019, folding the technology into Intel Tofino / Intel Intelligent Fabric Processors; the barefootnetworks.com corporate
  site now redirects into Intel, and the surviving open documentation lives in the barefootnetworks GitHub organization (notably
  the Open-Tofino repository publishing the public TNA and P4 architecture docs).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/barefoot-networks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
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- a16z
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Intel
x-acquired-year: '2019'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- Switches
- P4
- Programmable Networking
- SDN
- Silicon
- Data Plane
- Intel
apis: []
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/barefootnetworks/Open-Tofino/issues
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/barefootnetworks
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/barefootnetworks/Open-Tofino
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/barefootnetworks/Open-Tofino
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  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

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