Livingston Enterprises

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

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

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
  • "Livingston PortMaster 3". Osmocom.

References
  1. Marshall, Jonathan (Oct 16, 1997). "Livingston Snatched Up By Lucent". SFGate. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  2. "George Gilder". 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. OS X for Hackers at Heart. 2005. 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. "Second take on Net content control". CNET. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  13. "New $20 billion voice-data pairing faces off against Cisco". InfoWorld. Jan 18, 1999. p. 23.


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