Livingston Enterprises Explained

Founded:1986
Defunct:1997
Fate:Acquired by Lucent Technologies
Key People:Steven Willens (president and CEO)[1]
Num Employees:90[2]
Num Employees Year:1996

Livingston Enterprises, Inc. was a computer networking company.[3]

History

Livingston was founded in 1986.[4]

It was involved in a legal case against USRobotics.[5]

Acquisition by Lucent

The company was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1997.[6] [7]

Products

RADIUS

Livingston was the original author of the RADIUS standard for authentication.[8] The open source FreeRADIUS implementation that is being developed since 1999 has a syntax that is similar to the original Livingston implementation.[9]

In 1998, it released the RADIUS Accounting Billing Manager software.[10]

PortMaster

The first product released in 1990 was the PortMaster Communications Server.[11] In 1996, Livingston introduced the allowlist-based internet filter ChoiceNet, which could be used on PortMaster products.[12]

The PortMaster 4 was comparable to the Ascend Communications MAX series.[13]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. News: Marshall . Jonathan . Oct 16, 1997 . Livingston Snatched Up By Lucent . 2024-03-18 . . en.
  2. George Gilder. Wired . . Bronson . Po .
  3. 1995-10-30 . ISDN, presume? Livingston drops prices rock bottom . . 57 . 29 . 44.
  4. Web site: Livingston Enterprises Inc. Corporate Backgrounder. https://web.archive.org/web/19970701104733/http://www.livingston.com/Marketing/Corporate/corpbackgrounder.shtml. dead. July 1, 1997.
  5. Web site: Short Take: Livingston files countersuit . 2024-03-11 . CNET . en.
  6. News: N. Mehta . Stephanie . Lucent Agrees to Acquire Livingston for $650 Million . 2024-03-18 . . en-US.
  7. News: 1997-10-16 . Lucent to Buy Internet Servicer . 2024-03-18 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  8. Book: Hassell, Jonathan . RADIUS: Securing Public Access to Private Resources . . 2002 . 9781449395889 . 15–16.
  9. Book: 2005 . OS X for Hackers at Heart. 9780080489483 . Hurley . Chris . Rogers . Russ . Long . Johnny . Owad . Tom . Potter . Bruce . Elsevier .
  10. Web site: Livingston to debut remote access software . 2024-03-27 . CNET . en.
  11. Kearns . Dave . May 26, 1997 . RADIUS on the radar screen . . 21.
  12. Web site: Second take on Net content control . 2024-03-27 . CNET . en.
  13. New $20 billion voice-data pairing faces off against Cisco. InfoWorld. 23. Jan 18, 1999.

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