LITTLE CHESTERFORD, U.K. -- Radiant Networks Plc (“Radiant”), global market leader in Mesh broadband wireless access technology, announces it has appointed Tony Martin as Chief Technical Officer. He will be responsible for a team of 70 people at Radiant, which has offices near Cambridge in the UK, and in Florida, USA.Mr Martin, aged 45, joins from Lucent, where he was Managing Director of Lucent Technologies’ Asia Pacific Wireless Regional Centre in Kuala Lumpur. At Lucent, he co-founded and was chief architect of Lucent’s AirLoop digital fixed wireless technology for wireless local loop (WLL) and was actively involved in supporting mass deployment of the system. Subsequently, he was Director for GSM and UMTS systems engineering, responsible for specification of all technical aspects of Lucent’s offerings in these markets.Mr Martin has also worked at Nortel, Siemens and De La Rue in a number of engineering positions. He has an MSc in signal processing from Portsmouth University and began his career in the Royal Navy.Commenting, Geoff Butcher, Radiant’s Chief Executive Officer said: “We are delighted that Tony has joined Radiant. He has proven expertise in fixed wireless technology especially in the local loop and has worked at senior levels in a number of well-known international companies. He will make a valuable contribution to Radiant with his technical, international and commercial experience. He joins us at a time when our wireless Mesh concept is being increasingly adopted in the UK and overseas by a number of service providers.”Radiant Networks Plc