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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0.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Networking ATM Telecommunications Networking Hardware Defunct Historical

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 0.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: fore-systems
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/fore-systems.png
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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fore-systems/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-defunct:
  acquired-by: General Electric Company (GEC) / Marconi
  acquired-year: '1999'
  successor: Ericsson (2006)
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- ATM
- Telecommunications
- Networking Hardware
- Defunct
- Historical
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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