Vanu

Vanu, Inc. builds wireless network solutions that extend cellular coverage to areas that cannot be profitably served with conventional technology - rural regions, buildings, tunnels, and maritime environments. Founded in 1998 out of MIT software-radio research and headquartered in Lexington, MA (with offices in Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Kigali), Vanu ships the Anywave dual-mode GSM/LTE base station (the first FCC-certified software-defined radio), Community Connect village systems, portable LTE networks, VanuMaps coverage mapping, and coverage-as-a-service for mobile carriers, with deployments across rural India, Rwanda, and post-hurricane Puerto Rico and partnerships with Amazon Leo / Project Kuiper. Vanu publishes no public developer API surface.

Vanu is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Telecommunications, Wireless, Cellular Networks, and Rural Connectivity.

Vanu’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 5 more developer resources.

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12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyTelecommunicationsWirelessCellular NetworksRural ConnectivitySoftware Defined RadioNetwork InfrastructureCoverage Mapping

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Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Vanu
description: Vanu, Inc. builds wireless network solutions that extend cellular coverage to areas that cannot be profitably
  served with conventional technology - rural regions, buildings, tunnels, and maritime environments. Founded in 1998 out
  of MIT software-radio research and headquartered in Lexington, MA (with offices in Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Kigali), Vanu
  ships the Anywave dual-mode GSM/LTE base station (the first FCC-certified software-defined radio), Community Connect village
  systems, portable LTE networks, VanuMaps coverage mapping, and coverage-as-a-service for mobile carriers, with deployments
  across rural India, Rwanda, and post-hurricane Puerto Rico and partnerships with Amazon Leo / Project Kuiper. Vanu publishes
  no public developer API surface.
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Telecommunications
- Wireless
- Cellular Networks
- Rural Connectivity
- Software Defined Radio
- Network Infrastructure
- Coverage Mapping
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vanu-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.vanu.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.vanu.com/news-insights/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.vanu.com/services/technical-support/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.vanu.com/privacy-policy-2/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.vanu.com/terms-of-use/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/vanu-llms.txt