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Fred Sammartino

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Fred Sammartino in 2012

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 10-BaseT 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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