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Article: Routers in the Sky
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- Chief Executive
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Born in Kashmir, raised in Bombay (now Mumbai), Prodman Kaul came to the U.S. at the age of 17 in 1963 to study engineering at George Washington University and never looked back. He joined Comsat Laboratories, where he teamed up with the nucleus of engineers who would form Digital Communications Corporation-the company GM would buy in 1986 after it had been absorbed by M/A-COM. Under GMs umbrella, this and many other pieces became part of Hughes Electronics. (GM would later sell off pieces of its Hughes businesses, with the satellite business going to News Corp. and ultimately to the private equity group that now controls it.)
With more than 500 patents in a broad range of ...