# Barefoot Networks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/barefoot-networks/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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).

## Kin Score — 7.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| 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).

## Tags

Company, Networking, Switches, P4, Programmable Networking, SDN, Silicon, Data Plane, Intel

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