aid: barefoot-networks
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/barefoot-networks.png
name: Barefoot Networks
description: Barefoot Networks was a computer-networking company founded in 2013 in
  Santa Clara, California, that designed and produced programmable network-switch silicon,
  systems, and software. Its flagship Tofino Intelligent Fabric Processor was the first
  end-user-programmable Ethernet switch ASIC, built on the Protocol Independent Switch
  Architecture (PISA) and programmed with the P4 language at line rates up to 12.8 Tbit/s.
  Developer tooling spanned the P4 Studio SDK, the Barefoot Runtime Interface (BRI)
  control-plane API, and the Tofino Native Architecture (TNA). Intel acquired Barefoot
  Networks in June 2019, folding the technology into Intel Tofino / Intel Intelligent
  Fabric Processors; the barefootnetworks.com corporate site now redirects into Intel,
  and the surviving open documentation lives in the barefootnetworks GitHub organization
  (notably the Open-Tofino repository publishing the public TNA and P4 architecture docs).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/barefoot-networks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Intel
x-acquired-year: '2019'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- Switches
- P4
- Programmable Networking
- SDN
- Silicon
- Data Plane
- Intel
apis: []
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/barefootnetworks
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/barefootnetworks/Open-Tofino
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/barefootnetworks/Open-Tofino
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence