Growth Networks

Growth Networks was a networking-silicon startup founded in the late 1990s that developed a new category of switching hardware it branded Internet Switching Fabrics — scalable, multi-service capacity silicon for high-speed network switches and routers. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners (co-founded by Barry Eggers), the company was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000 and folded into Cisco's core routing and switching business. It operates no independent developer platform or public API today; this profile is retained as a venture-portfolio historical record rather than an active API provider.

Growth Networks is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, Semiconductors, Switching Silicon, and Networking Hardware.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyNetworkingSemiconductorsSwitching SiliconNetworking HardwareAcquiredCisco

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · 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 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Source (apis.yml)

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  method: derived
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name: Growth Networks
description: Growth Networks was a networking-silicon startup founded in the late 1990s that developed a new category of switching
  hardware it branded Internet Switching Fabrics — scalable, multi-service capacity silicon for high-speed network switches
  and routers. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners (co-founded by Barry Eggers), the company was acquired by Cisco Systems
  in 2000 and folded into Cisco's core routing and switching business. It operates no independent developer platform or public
  API today; this profile is retained as a venture-portfolio historical record rather than an active API provider.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/growth-networks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: cisco-systems
x-acquired-year: 2000
x-active: false
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- Semiconductors
- Switching Silicon
- Networking Hardware
- Acquired
- Cisco
apis: []
maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence