History

Vanu®, Inc. provides innovative wireless infrastructure solutions to enable operators to access new markets and new revenue streams. The company grew out of groundbreaking research in software radio at MIT and was founded in 1998. It is the developer of the Anywave® Base Station, the first U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-certified software radio. Anywave's software-only design runs on commercial off-the-shelf processors rather than ex­pensive proprietary hardware. In addition, it is the first Radio Access Network (RAN) product to simultaneously support multiple cellular radio standards on the same platform. Vanu's software RAN solutions are developed through the use of Software Defined Radio (SDR).

Traditionally, wireless infrastructure manufacturers have developed single-standard, high-power, high-capacity networks to address cellular coverage needs. These dedicated networks require a large financial investment that took a long time to generate positive returns on that initial investment. As new technologies emerged, so did the need for addition investment to build a new radio access network (RAN) to support each additional standard.

Vanu, Inc. has developed the first commercially available software radio access network (RAN) that lets wireless carriers operate multiple standards simultaneously on a single platform. That means GSM, CDMA, iDEN and more… all operating simultaneously from a single base station.

Vanu's software RAN solutions have the ability to transform the wireless infrastructure industry in the same fashion the PC changed the computer industry. For decades, computers were a vertically integrated industry where a single ven­dor provided an end-to-end solution that included all components - processor, motherboard, operating system and applications. Over time, the industry has transformed into a horizontal framework for customers to purchase each of these components from multiple vendors.

In the wireless infrastructure industry, a vertically integrated single vendor solution that included the BTS, BSC, base­band, RF head and antenna subsystems was the only choice. Through the utilization of Vanu's software RAN solutions, an operator now has the freedom to choose how they want to do business with their vendor partners based on the best fit for their business needs. This could be purchasing an end-to-end solution from a single vendor acting as a systems integrator, purchasing each component separately from the vendor of their choice in order to build a best-in-class RAN, or any option in between.