Cabletron Systems

Cabletron Systems, Inc. was an American manufacturer of networking and network-management equipment, founded in 1983 by Craig Benson and Robert Levine and headquartered in Rochester, New Hampshire. It rose to prominence in the 10BASE5 and Ethernet switching markets, shipped the ST-500 transceiver and the LAN-MD field test set, built the SPECTRUM network-management platform, and passed one billion US dollars in annual sales in 1996 at a peak of roughly 6,600 employees. In 2000 the company announced a split into four businesses: Enterasys Networks (enterprise switching), Riverstone Networks (metro service provider), Aprisma Management Technologies (SPECTRUM software), and GlobalNetwork Technology Services. The Cabletron holding company merged into Enterasys, which went public in 2001, was taken private by The Gores Group in 2006, and was acquired by Extreme Networks in 2013. Riverstone was acquired by Lucent and later liquidated. Cabletron Systems no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no developer program, API, or documentation: the cabletron.com and enterasys.com domains both redirect to extremenetworks.com. This record is retained as a historical company profile only.

Cabletron Systems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, Ethernet, Network Management, and Network Hardware.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyNetworkingEthernetNetwork ManagementNetwork HardwareEnterprise SwitchingDefunctHistorical

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Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

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MCP Server 0 / 12

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name: Cabletron Systems
description: 'Cabletron Systems, Inc. was an American manufacturer of networking and network-management equipment, founded
  in 1983 by Craig Benson and Robert Levine and headquartered in Rochester, New Hampshire. It rose to prominence in the 10BASE5
  and Ethernet switching markets, shipped the ST-500 transceiver and the LAN-MD field test set, built the SPECTRUM network-management
  platform, and passed one billion US dollars in annual sales in 1996 at a peak of roughly 6,600 employees. In 2000 the company
  announced a split into four businesses: Enterasys Networks (enterprise switching), Riverstone Networks (metro service provider),
  Aprisma Management Technologies (SPECTRUM software), and GlobalNetwork Technology Services. The Cabletron holding company
  merged into Enterasys, which went public in 2001, was taken private by The Gores Group in 2006, and was acquired by Extreme
  Networks in 2013. Riverstone was acquired by Lucent and later liquidated. Cabletron Systems no longer operates as an independent
  company and publishes no developer program, API, or documentation: the cabletron.com and enterasys.com domains both redirect
  to extremenetworks.com. This record is retained as a historical company profile only.'
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x-successor: Extreme Networks (via Enterasys Networks, acquired 2013)
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