# FORE Systems

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/fore-systems/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 0.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 0.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Networking, ATM, Telecommunications, Networking Hardware, Defunct, Historical

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