Copper Mountain Network

Copper Mountain Networks was a telecommunications equipment maker founded in 1996 by Mark Handzel and Joe Markee that led the 1990s DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) wave in North America, building central-office DSL concentrators (the CopperEdge platform) and customer-premises modems that delivered high-speed broadband over existing copper telephone lines. The company was venture-backed by Canaan Partners and InterWest, held its IPO in 1999, weathered the telecom downturn of 2001, and was acquired by Tut Systems in 2005 (later absorbed into Motorola in 2007). It shipped hardware and network equipment, not a public web/developer API; the company is defunct and operates no live developer platform today.

Copper Mountain Network is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Telecommunications, Networking, Broadband, and DSL.

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0.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyTelecommunicationsNetworkingBroadbandDSLHardwareDefunct

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 0.6/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Telecommunications regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: copper-mountain-network
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/copper-mountain-network.png
name: Copper Mountain Network
description: Copper Mountain Networks was a telecommunications equipment maker founded in 1996 by Mark Handzel and Joe Markee
  that led the 1990s DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) wave in North America, building central-office DSL concentrators (the CopperEdge
  platform) and customer-premises modems that delivered high-speed broadband over existing copper telephone lines. The company
  was venture-backed by Canaan Partners and InterWest, held its IPO in 1999, weathered the telecom downturn of 2001, and was
  acquired by Tut Systems in 2005 (later absorbed into Motorola in 2007). It shipped hardware and network equipment, not a
  public web/developer API; the company is defunct and operates no live developer platform today.
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '1996'
x-acquired-by: tut-systems
x-sector: telecommunications-equipment
x-note: 'Enrichment pipeline found NO API surface: no live company domain, developer portal, documentation, OpenAPI, or artifacts.
  This is a historical/defunct 1990s DSL hardware vendor. No artifact pointers were added (no fabrication). The extant coppermountain.com
  / coppermtn.com domains belong to the Colorado ski resort and copper.com to the unrelated Copper CRM; none are this entity.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/copper-mountain-network/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Telecommunications
- Networking
- Broadband
- DSL
- Hardware
- Defunct
apis: []
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