Company:Livingston Enterprises

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FateAcquired by Lucent Technologies
Founded1986
Defunct1997
Key people
Steven Willens (president and CEO)[1]
Number of employees
90[2] (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 1995, the PortMaster Office Router was licensed to Cisco, which formed their 1020 Dial-on-Demand Asynchronous Router.[12]

In 1996, Livingston introduced the allowlist-based internet filter ChoiceNet, which could be used on PortMaster products.[13]

The PortMaster 4 was comparable to the Ascend Communications MAX series.[14]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Marshall, Jonathan (Oct 16, 1997). "Livingston Snatched Up By Lucent" (in en). SFGate. https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/livingston-snatched-up-by-lucent-2801152.php. 
  2. ↑ Bronson, Po. "George Gilder". Wired (Wired). https://www.wired.com/1996/03/gilder-5/. 
  3. ↑ "ISDN, presume? Livingston drops prices rock bottom". Computerworld 29 (44): 57. 1995-10-30. https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1995-10-30_29_44/page/n57. 
  4. ↑ "Livingston Enterprises Inc. Corporate Backgrounder". http://www.livingston.com/Marketing/Corporate/corpbackgrounder.shtml. 
  5. ↑ "Short Take: Livingston files countersuit" (in en). https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/short-take-livingston-files-countersuit/. 
  6. ↑ N. Mehta, Stephanie. "Lucent Agrees to Acquire Livingston for $650 Million" (in en-US). The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB876932862488061000. 
  7. ↑ "Lucent to Buy Internet Servicer" (in en-US). The New York Times. 1997-10-16. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/16/business/lucent-to-buy-internet-servicer.html. 
  8. ↑ Hassell, Jonathan (2002). RADIUS: Securing Public Access to Private Resources. O'Reilly Media, Inc.. pp. 15–16. ISBN 9781449395889. 
  9. ↑ Hurley, Chris; Rogers, Russ; Long, Johnny; Owad, Tom; Potter, Bruce (2005). OS X for Hackers at Heart. Elsevier. ISBN 9780080489483. 
  10. ↑ "Livingston to debut remote access software" (in en). https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/livingston-to-debut-remote-access-software/. 
  11. ↑ Kearns, Dave (May 26, 1997). "RADIUS on the radar screen". Network World: 21. https://archive.org/details/networkworld1421unse/page/21/mode/1up. 
  12. ↑ "Livingston gets into 'Net game with new wares". Network World. 21 August 1995. https://books.google.com/books?id=Lg8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16. 
  13. ↑ "Second take on Net content control" (in en). https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/second-take-on-net-content-control/. 
  14. ↑ "New $20 billion voice-data pairing faces off against Cisco". InfoWorld: 23. Jan 18, 1999. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0oEAAAAMBAJ. 



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