aid: arrowpoint
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  pricing: unknown
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  label: Unknown
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  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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name: ArrowPoint
description: >-
  ArrowPoint Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARPT) was a networking company based in Acton,
  Massachusetts that built content switches — Layer 4-7 "web switches" that inspected HTTP
  content, cookies and URLs to route and load-balance traffic across web server farms, CDNs
  and hosting providers. Founded in 1997 and backed by Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture
  Partners and Accel Partners, it IPO'd in early 2000 and was acquired by Cisco Systems in a
  stock deal announced 2000-05-05 and completed 2000-06-23, valued at roughly $5.7 billion.
  Its CSS 11000 series and WebNS software became a Cisco product line that has since reached
  end-of-life and been retired. ArrowPoint no longer operates as an independent company: it
  publishes no developer portal, no documentation, no APIs and no SDKs, and the arrowpoint.com
  domain — still delegated to Cisco nameservers — serves no live web or API surface. This
  profile is retained as a historical record of a Matrix Partners portfolio exit.
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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- north-bridge-venture-partners
- accel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: cisco
x-acquired-date: '2000-06-23'
x-acquisition-value-usd: 5700000000
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Networking
- Content Delivery
- Load Balancing
- Acquired
- Historical
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  name: Domain Security Probe
  url: security/arrowpoint-domain-security.yml
- type: Acquisition
  name: Cisco Systems Completes Acquisition of ArrowPoint
  url: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2000/m06/cisco-systems-completes-acquisition-of-arrowpoint.html
- type: Acquisition
  name: Cisco Systems to Acquire ArrowPoint Communications
  url: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2000/m05/cisco-systems-to-acquire-arrowpoint-communications.html
- type: ProductArchive
  name: Cisco CSS 11000 Series Content Services Switches (retired ArrowPoint product line)
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/obsolete/application-networking-services/cisco-css-11000-series-content-services-switches.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  date: '2026-07-20'
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