Livingston Enterprises
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Livingston Enterprises, Inc. was a computer networking company.[3]
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| Founded | 1986 |
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| Defunct | 1997 |
| Fate | Acquired 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) |
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]