Livingston Enterprises

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Livingston Enterprises
Founded1986
Defunct1997
FateAcquired by Lucent Technologies
Key people
Steven Willens (president and CEO) [1]
Number of employees
90 [2]  (1996)
Website livingston.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 April 1997)

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

Contents

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". SFGate . Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  2. ↑ Bronson, Po. "George Gilder". Wired. Wired.
  3. ↑ "ISDN, presume? Livingston drops prices rock bottom". Computerworld . Vol. 29, no. 44. 1995-10-30. p. 57.
  4. ↑ "Livingston Enterprises Inc. Corporate Backgrounder". Archived from the original on July 1, 1997.
  5. ↑ "Short Take: Livingston files countersuit". CNET. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  6. ↑ N. Mehta, Stephanie. "Lucent Agrees to Acquire Livingston for $650 Million". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  7. ↑ "Lucent to Buy Internet Servicer". The New York Times. 1997-10-16. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  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". CNET. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  11. ↑ Kearns, Dave (May 26, 1997). "RADIUS on the radar screen". Network World . p. 21.
  12. ↑ "Livingston gets into 'Net game with new wares". Network World . 21 August 1995 – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ "Second take on Net content control". CNET. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  14. ↑ "New $20 billion voice-data pairing faces off against Cisco". InfoWorld . Jan 18, 1999. p. 23.
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