Fred Sammartino is an American communications-industry engineer and executive, well known as the founding president and chairman of the board of the ATM Forum.[1][2][3]
In the 1980s, Sammartino worked for David Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, California, where he was product-line manager for a product technology to deliver Ethernet over two twisted pairs, before the 10BASE-T Ethernet standard emerged.[4][5]
Sammartino also worked at Apple Computer[6][7] before joining Sun Microsystems[8] and founding the ATM Forum. Educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stanford University, as of 2013 he is director of product management at Azuki Systems in the Boston area.[9]
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- ^ July 1994 Telecom Standards Newsletter
- ^ 20 May 1996 Computerworld
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- ^ 25 March 1991 Network World
- ^ 1991 IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
- ^ 24 Jan 1994 Computerworld
- ^ Fred Sammartino on LinkedIn