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Network Management

Score 17.5 / 100 26 providers +9 via APIs 15 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (26)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Minimal 14 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (15)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (9)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Network Management” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Amdocs ARRIS Group Brocade Cisco Cisco Expressway Cisco Hardware HPE Aruba Networking Inmarsat Ubiquiti

Score breakdown

Frequency
43.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
26.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
7.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Network Automation 8 co-occurrences SD-WAN 7 co-occurrences Fabric 5 co-occurrences Wireless 7 co-occurrences Networking 21 co-occurrences Broadband 5 co-occurrences Data Center 9 co-occurrences Routing 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag26
Api tag15

Cohort brief

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The 19 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Network Management, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
19
all scored
Mean Kin Score
29.1
+6.2 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
16.8
+4.9 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
4.1–63.2
median 35.6 · σ 18.7
How the 19 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 3Thin 7Emerging 0Minimal 7
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 31.4 17.6 +13.8 19
Developer Ergonomics 35.9 23.2 +12.7 19
Operational Transparency 18.4 13.7 +4.7 19
Discoverability 61.3 58.1 +3.2 19
Contract Governance 7 6.3 +0.7 19
Access Clarity 22.2 26.5 -4.3 19

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 11% 14% -3
MCP server (first-party) 11% 12% -1
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 11% 11% 0
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 26% 14% +12

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN 63.2
  2. 2 Cisco Catalyst Center 58.3
  3. 3 Infoblox 48.8
  4. 4 Aruba 44
  5. 5 Tarana Wireless 41.6
  6. 6 Ciena 38.1
  7. 7 Extreme Networks 37.5
  8. 8 128 Technology 37.1
  9. 9 NetBox 35.6
  10. 10 RouterOS 35.6
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Cisco Catalyst Center 37.4
  2. 2 Tarana Wireless 33.5
  3. 3 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN 33.1
  4. 4 Pica8 31.1
  5. 5 Extreme Networks 29.1
  6. 6 128 Technology 25.2
  7. 7 Ciena 22.7
  8. 8 Aruba 22.3
  9. 9 RouterOS 22.3
  10. 10 Nokia NetAct 22.3
All 26 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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  • get_cohortThis tag as a scored cohort — every provider carrying it, with scores.
  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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