FORE Systems

FORE Systems, Inc.
IndustryComputer networking
Founded1990; 34 years ago (1990) in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, United States
Founder
  • Francois Bitz
  • Onat Menzilcioglu
  • Robert Sansom
  • Eric Cooper
Defunct1999 (1999)
FateAcquired by Marconi Communications
Websitefore.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 1998-01-16)

FORE Systems, Inc., was a computer network switching equipment company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1990 to supply Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cards for workstation computers, it soon branched out to become a major supplier in the ATM switch market and the extended those product lines to add Internet Protocol switching and other devices.

FORE was purchased by the British General Electric Company (GEC) in 1999,[1] just before the dot-com bubble, which eventually drove GEC to reform the company as Marconi. Ericsson purchased most of Marconi in 2006.[2]

  1. ^ Johnston, Margret (May 2, 1999). "British firm to acquire Fore -". FCW. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  2. ^ Oates, John. "Ericsson buys Marconi". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.