# Kalpana

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kalpana/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| 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, Ethernet, Switching, Hardware, Defunct, Acquired

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