Kalpana

Kalpana, Inc. was a Sunnyvale, California networking hardware company founded in 1990 by Vinod Bhardwaj and Larry Blair that built the first Ethernet switch, the seven-port EtherSwitch, and pioneered EtherChannel link aggregation and the Virtual LAN (VLAN) concept. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1994 and has been defunct as an independent entity ever since, with its technology absorbed into Cisco's Catalyst switching product line. There is no surviving developer portal, API, or public developer surface associated with the original Kalpana, Inc.

Kalpana is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, Ethernet, Switching, and 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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CompanyNetworkingEthernetSwitchingHardwareDefunctAcquired

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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)

aid: kalpana
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/kalpana.png
name: Kalpana
description: Kalpana, Inc. was a Sunnyvale, California networking hardware company founded in 1990 by Vinod Bhardwaj and Larry
  Blair that built the first Ethernet switch, the seven-port EtherSwitch, and pioneered EtherChannel link aggregation and
  the Virtual LAN (VLAN) concept. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1994 and has been defunct as an independent
  entity ever since, with its technology absorbed into Cisco's Catalyst switching product line. There is no surviving developer
  portal, API, or public developer surface associated with the original Kalpana, Inc.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kalpana/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: cisco
x-acquired-year: 1994
x-enrichment-note: Identified as the historical Kalpana, Inc. (LAN switching, acquired by Cisco 1994) via the Kleiner Perkins
  portfolio record (sector hardtech, status acquired, is_api_provider false) and Wikipedia. No live API, domain, docs, or
  developer surface exists to enrich. Not to be confused with unrelated modern companies of the same name (e.g. kalpana.dev).
  No fabricated artifacts were created.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- Ethernet
- Switching
- Hardware
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
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