Fred Sammartino

Fred Sammartino in 2012

Fred Sammartino is an American communications-industry engineer and executive, well known as the founding president and chairman of the board of the ATM Forum.[1][2][3]

In the 1980s, Sammartino worked for David Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, California, where he was product-line manager for a product technology to deliver Ethernet over two twisted pairs, before the 10-BaseT Ethernet standard emerged.[4][5]

Sammartino also worked at Apple Computer[6][7] before joining Sun Microsystems[8] and founding the ATM Forum. Educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stanford University, he is currently director of product management at Azuki Systems in the Boston area.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Nov. 1992 Asynchronous Transfer Mode Newsletter
  2. ↑ July 1994 Telecom Standards Newsletter
  3. ↑ 20 May 1996 Computerworld
  4. ↑ 14 Dec. 1987 InfoWorld
  5. ↑ 11 Jan. 1988 InfoWorld
  6. ↑ 25 March 1991 Network World
  7. ↑ 1991 IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
  8. ↑ 24 Jan 1994 Computerworld
  9. ↑ Fred Sammartino on LinkedIn


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