Nuno Bandeira![]()
In 1993 Nuno co-founded another
start-up, Utilicom, which developed the first commercial spread
spectrum radios used for utility meter reading. In 2000 the company
was sold to WiLAN where he also served for two years as Vice
President of Engineering, prior to founding Afar Communications.
In his earlier career Nuno worked as a
senior scientist for Hughes Aircraft at their Santa Barbara Research
Center, where he was in charge of the software design and development
for deep space and earth orbiting instruments flown in various NASA
missions.
Nuno has a bachelor degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Lisbon, and a MSEE
degree from the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Lars Poulsen![]()
Lars first became involved with
wireless data communication when he joined Utilicom in 1998, and
worked with Nuno on developing a patented protocol for
tree-structured wireless networks.
Beginning in 1980, Lars worked as a
senior software engineer for ACC (Advanced Computer Communications)
on various Internet products. In 1990 he went to Rockwell CMC, where
he led a project group developing a dial-on-demand edge router for
small offices using the Rockwell modem chip set.
Lars began his career in Denmark, first
at University of Copenhagen's academic computer center, later at an
engineering company building industrial control systems on PDP-8 and
PDP-11 minicomputers.
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