# Lara Networks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lara-networks/  
**Website:** https://www.laranetworks.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Lara Networks, Inc. (founded as Lara Technology) was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered at 110 Nortech Parkway, San Jose, California, that architected, designed, and marketed silicon-based packet-processing solutions for high-speed Internet and networking infrastructure. Its products were built on a patent-pending Associative Processing Technology (APT) and manufactured on 0.18-micron process technology: Network Database Search Engine (NDSE) devices, network coprocessors, and NDSE subsystems, with Content-Aware Switching (CAS) solutions in development. The devices were content-addressable memory search engines that offloaded ultra-large table lookups from network processors — holding tables of more than three million addresses and sustaining over 100 million lookups per second so switches and routers could process packets from Layer 2 to Layer 7 at full line rate at OC-48 (2.5Gbps) and above. The company raised a $40 million second round in October 2000 led by Raza Ventures with Battery Ventures, InveStar Capital, and TeleSoft Venture Partners, alongside a long-term co-development agreement and minority equity investment from STMicroelectronics. Lara Networks no longer operates independently: by January 2003 its laranetworks.com domain served Cypress Semiconductor Corporation content, and today every path on the domain 301-redirects to Infineon Technologies, which acquired Cypress in April 2020. As a fabless chip company selling silicon to network equipment manufacturers, Lara Networks never operated a web or developer API program, and no public API surface exists to enrich. This profile is retained as an acquired-company lead.

## 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).

## Security (1)

- **Lara Networks Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Semiconductors, Networking, Packet Processing, Content Addressable Memory, Network Search Engine, Internet Infrastructure, Fabless, Hardtech, Acquired

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