aid: ascend-communications
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/ascend-communications.png
name: Ascend Communications
description: 'Ascend Communications, Inc. was an Alameda, California manufacturer of wide area networking
  equipment, founded in 1988 and taken public in 1994. It developed, manufactured and sold WAN access
  solutions — remote-access concentrators, ISDN and frame relay gear, and the MAX family of access
  servers — to telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and corporate customers
  worldwide, becoming a leading supplier during the dial-up internet build-out of the 1990s. On January
  13, 1999 Lucent Technologies announced a definitive agreement to merge with Ascend in a stock deal
  valued at roughly $20.3 billion, and the merger completed on June 24, 1999, when Ascend became a
  wholly owned subsidiary of Lucent. The company has not operated independently since. It was surfaced
  in the API Evangelist network as a Kleiner Perkins portfolio company; it predates the public web API
  era and publishes no developer surface today.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ascend-communications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-defunct:
  founded: '1988'
  ipo: '1994'
  acquired_by: Lucent Technologies
  announced: '1999-01-13'
  completed: '1999-06-24'
  value_usd: 20300000000
  note: 'Merged into Lucent Technologies as a wholly owned subsidiary; no independent operations, no
    developer portal, and no API surface. Historic domains ascend.com and ascendcommunications.com are
    now unrelated parked / domain-sale pages (verified 2026-07-19).'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Networking
- Telecommunications
- Remote Access
- Hardware
- WAN
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
common:
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascend_Communications
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  note: 'Company defunct since the 1999 Lucent merger. Probed ascend.com and ascendcommunications.com
    (both unrelated parked domains; ascendcommunications.com returns wildcard soft-404 200s, so its
    /.well-known/ responses are not real documents), npm/PyPI (only unrelated Ascend.io and Apex Fintech
    packages), and github.com/ascend-communications (404). No API, docs, SDK, package, well-known, MCP,
    or event surface exists to capture. No artifacts written by design.'