# Vanu

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vanu/  
**Website:** https://www.vanu.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 9.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 19.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Vanu Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Telecommunications, Wireless, Cellular Networks, Rural Connectivity, Software Defined Radio, Network Infrastructure, Coverage Mapping

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/vanu/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.