David Sobin
David Sobin is a well known American inventor, and the CEO of BAMnet Corporation, the parent company of ReplayLocker. A 24-year AT&T Executive, he led the team which created the first DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) product in the early 1980s and deployed it globally. While at Bell Labs, he was awarded a patent for his invention of a fiber optic backplane.[1] He left AT&T/Lucent in 1996 to found his own DSL company, which was subsequently sold for approximately $50M in 1998. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.[2][3][4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ US 4870637, Follett, David R. & Sobin, David L., "Optical backplane", published 1989-09-26, assigned to AT&T Co. and AT&T Bell Labs.
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