W. David Sincoskie

W. David Sincoskie
Born(1954-12-21)December 21, 1954
DiedOctober 20, 2010(2010-10-20) (aged 55)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Delaware
Known forVirtual LAN
ATM
Packet switching
Active networking
AwardsIEEE's Fred W. Ellersick Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Engineering
InstitutionsBell Labs
Bellcore
Telcordia Technologies
University of Delaware
Doctoral advisorDave Farber

Walter David "Dave" Sincoskie (December 21, 1954 – October 20, 2010)[1] was an American computer engineer. Sincoskie installed the first Ethernet local area network[2] at Bellcore, and helped invent voice over IP technology. Sincoskie authored the first local ATM specification. He is also the inventor of the VLAN.[3]

  1. ^ "[IP] sad news: Dave Sincoskie". Interesting-people.org. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
  2. ^ "News Department of Computer Science at LSU". Csc.lsu.edu. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
  3. ^ "CCNC". Ieee-ccnc.org. Retrieved 2011-03-12.