Lightspeed International

aid: lightspeed-international
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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/lightspeed-international.png
name: Lightspeed International
description: 'Lightspeed International Inc. was a software company founded in 1995 that developed voice control software for
  data communications networks, an early entrant in the mid-1990s effort to carry voice traffic over packet-switched data
  infrastructure. It was co-founded and led by CEO Lev Volftsun and backed at the early stage by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
  Cisco Systems, Inc. acquired the company in 1997, absorbing its voice-over-data-networks technology and team. The company
  has not operated as an independent entity since that acquisition, predates the public web API era entirely, and never published
  an API, developer portal, SDK, or machine-readable interface. Its legacy domain lightspeedinternational.com is now a parked
  HugeDomains for-sale listing with no live web surface. This profile is retained as a historical record of the Lightspeed
  Venture Partners portfolio and is not an active API provider. NOTE: unrelated to Lightspeed Commerce (the retail and restaurant
  POS company profiled at all/lightspeed and all/lightspeed-pos), to Lightspeed Trading at lightspeed.com, and — despite the
  shared name — a portfolio company of rather than an affiliate of Lightspeed Venture Partners (see x-disambiguation).'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightspeed-international/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: historical
x-tier-reason: acquired-1997-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-founded: 1995
x-acquired-by: Cisco Systems, Inc.
x-acquired-year: 1997
x-acquisition-source: https://lsvp.com/company/lightspeed-international/
x-founders:
- FN: Lev Volftsun
  role: Co-Founder & CEO
x-enrichment:
  last_run: '2026-07-19'
  result: no-api-surface
  artifacts: none
  rationale: Entity is defunct (acquired by Cisco Systems in 1997) and published no API, developer portal, SDK, or specification.
    It predates the public web API era, and no live web surface, documentation host, or base URL exists to probe or enrich.
    No artifacts were generated; fabricating any would be unfaithful to the enrichment contract.
  probes:
  - target: https://lsvp.com/company/lightspeed-international/
    status: 200
    finding: Investor portfolio listing; source of founding year, description, leadership, and the Cisco acquisition. Publishes
      no company website URL.
  - target: https://lightspeedinternational.com/
    status: 0
    finding: HTTPS connection timed out; no live web surface.
  - target: http://lightspeedinternational.com/
    status: 200
    finding: Redirects to a HugeDomains for-sale parking page; domain is not operated by the company.
x-disambiguation:
- name: Lightspeed Commerce
  url: https://www.lightspeedhq.com/
  relationship: unrelated-name-collision
  note: Montreal-based omnichannel retail and restaurant point-of-sale platform, and an active API provider already profiled
    in the network at all/lightspeed and all/lightspeed-pos. No corporate relationship to Lightspeed International Inc.
- name: Lightspeed Financial (Lightspeed Trading)
  url: https://lightspeed.com/
  relationship: unrelated-name-collision
  note: Active-trading platform for options, stocks, and futures occupying lightspeed.com as of the 2026-07-19 probe. Unrelated
    to Lightspeed International Inc.
- name: Lightspeed Venture Partners
  url: https://lsvp.com/
  relationship: investor
  note: 'The venture firm that backed Lightspeed International at the early stage, and from whose public portfolio listing
    this profile was surfaced. The shared name is coincidental: Lightspeed International was a portfolio company, not an affiliate
    or subsidiary of the firm. Profiled in the network at all/lightspeed-venture-partners.'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Telecommunications
- Voice over IP
- Networking
- Data Communications
- Software
- Acquired
- Historical
apis: []
common:
- type: Acquirer
  name: Cisco Systems, Inc.
  url: https://www.cisco.com/
- type: Investor
  name: Lightspeed Venture Partners
  url: https://lsvp.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io