Who is Portmasters.com and what is their relationship to Livingston Enterprises and Lucent?
Portmasters.com is not affiliated with Livingston Enterprises or Lucent Technology. We are a subsidiary of Alpha Medix, LP, a medical billing online service bureau started in 1972. We were one of Livingston’s early customers. Livingston Enterprises is the original company that developed and marketed the Portmaster beginning with the PM-11, the first commercially available stand-alone remote access server supporting such protocols as PPP and Radius Authentication (a Livingston invention). We began to resell Portmasters in 1993. When Livingston discontinued support for the PM-11, we took up that responsibility and started the Portmasters.com website as a user-supported forum. We continued to support and resell the older Portmaster models and became a dealer for the newer Portmaster 3 and Portmaster 4. Lucent purchased Livingston in 1999 and we continued to sell, service and support Portmasters. Eventually, the Portmaster support mailing lists were moved to Portmasters.com. When Lucent de
