aid: equipe-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/equipe-communications.png
name: Equipe Communications
description: 'Équipe Communications Corporation was an Acton, Massachusetts telecommunications
  equipment startup established in 1999 by a group of telecom industry veterans. It designed,
  manufactured, and sold data network switching equipment for large-scale facilities-based carriers
  and service providers — Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs), Inter Exchange Carriers (IXCs),
  and international carriers. Its product line comprised the Équipe 3200 Multiservice ATM/MPLS Core
  Data Switch, Évail System Software, ÉvailNet Manager, and Élite LifeCycle service and support. The
  positioning was to let carriers scale an existing ATM core network while offering a gradual,
  low-risk transition path to MPLS. The company raised a $40 million third round in March 2002, was
  awarded the first of 74 patents in February 2002, earned ISO 9001:2000 certification from TÜV
  Management Service in February 2002, signed a sales agent/reseller agreement with Ciena in June 2002
  and a services master agreement with Fujitsu in August 2002, and achieved NEBS certification for the
  É3200 in January 2003. Équipe was a carrier-hardware vendor of the pre-API era: it never published a
  public API, developer portal, SDK, or machine-readable interface. This profile is retained as a
  historical record of the Battery Ventures portfolio and is not an active API provider. NOTE:
  unrelated to equipe.com, a Swedish equestrian show-management software company (see
  x-disambiguation).'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/equipe-communications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: historical
x-tier-reason: defunct-pre-api-era-hardware-vendor-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-basis: 'Corporate site www.equipecommunications.com stops in the Internet Archive at
  2004-06-12; the latest archived press release is 2003-01-07. As of 2026-07-20 neither
  equipecommunications.com nor equipecom.com resolves in DNS (no A or NS records), and no GitHub
  organization exists (api.github.com/orgs/equipe-communications and /equipecommunications both
  HTTP 404). No acquisition or wind-down record was verified during this pass — the company is
  recorded as defunct on the evidence above, and no acquirer is asserted.'
x-founded: 1999
x-headquarters: 100 Nagog Park, Acton, MA 01720, United States
x-former-domains:
- equipecom.com
- equipecommunications.com
x-products:
- Équipe 3200 Multiservice ATM/MPLS Core Data Switch
- Évail System Software
- ÉvailNet Manager
- Élite LifeCycle Service and Support
x-disambiguation:
- name: Equipe AB
  url: https://equipe.com/
  relationship: unrelated-name-collision
  note: 'Swedish cloud-based equestrian show-management software company (competition management,
    live scoring, results). It does publish a developer surface (api-docs.equipe.com,
    docs.equipe.com, github.com/equipe, status.equipe.com, changelog.equipe.com), but it is an
    entirely different company from the Acton, MA telecom equipment vendor profiled here and must
    not be conflated with it or used to populate this profile.'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Telecommunications
- Networking Equipment
- ATM
- MPLS
- Carrier Networks
- Hardtech
- Historical
- Defunct
apis: []
common:
- type: Archive
  name: Équipe Communications corporate site (Internet Archive, 2004-06-12)
  url: http://web.archive.org/web/20040612233110/http://www.equipecommunications.com/
- type: Archive
  name: Équipe Communications press release index (Internet Archive)
  url: http://web.archive.org/web/20040612233110/http://www.equipecommunications.com/pressrel.html
- type: Investor
  name: Battery Ventures
  url: https://www.battery.com/list-of-all-companies/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1