FORE Systems

FORE Systems, Inc. was a computer network switching equipment company based in Warrendale (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, founded in 1990 by Carnegie Mellon researchers Francois Bitz, Onat Menzilcioglu, Robert Sansom and Eric Cooper (the "FORE" acronym) to build Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network interface cards and switches. It was the first company to commercially ship an ATM switch (the ASX-100) in 1992 and grew through acquisitions (ALANTEC, Applied Network Technology, RainbowBridge, CellAccess) before being acquired by Britain's General Electric Company (GEC) in 1999, folded into Marconi, and ultimately absorbed by Ericsson in 2006. The company is defunct and has no active API surface, developer portal, or product endpoints; this profile is a historical/company record in the API Evangelist network.

FORE Systems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, ATM, Telecommunications, and Networking Hardware.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
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Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
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name: FORE Systems
description: FORE Systems, Inc. was a computer network switching equipment company based in Warrendale (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania,
  founded in 1990 by Carnegie Mellon researchers Francois Bitz, Onat Menzilcioglu, Robert Sansom and Eric Cooper (the "FORE"
  acronym) to build Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network interface cards and switches. It was the first company to commercially
  ship an ATM switch (the ASX-100) in 1992 and grew through acquisitions (ALANTEC, Applied Network Technology, RainbowBridge,
  CellAccess) before being acquired by Britain's General Electric Company (GEC) in 1999, folded into Marconi, and ultimately
  absorbed by Ericsson in 2006. The company is defunct and has no active API surface, developer portal, or product endpoints;
  this profile is a historical/company record in the API Evangelist network.
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