# Nicira Networks

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

Nicira Networks was a software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization pioneer founded in 2007 out of research by Martin Casado, Nick McKeown, and Scott Shenker on OpenFlow. Its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) decoupled virtual networks from underlying physical hardware. VMware acquired Nicira on August 24, 2012 for approximately $1.26 billion; the technology was folded into VMware vSwitch and relaunched as VMware NSX in 2013, and VMware was itself acquired by Broadcom in November 2023. Nicira no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no first-party developer portal or API. Its only historical API footprint is the third-party Nicira NVP plugin integrated into Apache CloudStack. Surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of a16z and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 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, Infrastructure, Networking, Software Defined Networking, Network Virtualization, SDN, OpenFlow, Acquired

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