Wi-Fi offload and OpenRoaming: What the track record tells us about seamless authentication Wi-Fi offload sounds simple – push mobile traffic onto cheap Wi-Fi. OpenRoaming and eduroam show exactly where it gets complicated. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks Wi-Fi offload (somet... Industry Insights and Trends Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Network security architecture lessons from a ten-year breach A ten-year intrusion that replaced the authentication stack entirely, and what it tells you about the shortfalls in network security architecture. By Alan DeKok, CEO, InkBridge Networks When forensic ... Network Architecture Network Security Best Practices Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
Why RADIUS failover fails and what’s being done about it A single misbehaving device can take an entire institution offline. At the RADIUS Conference Workshop 2026, the people who build and operate RADIUS spent a day working through why, and what to do abou... IETF and RADIUS Standards Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Good engineering doesn’t need AI to fix it AI can optimise a poorly engineered network, but it can’t replace the engineering that should have been there in the first place. At Mobile World Congress this year, JSA TV sat down with Jana Sedivy, ... Industry Insights and Trends Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Why high availability architecture matters more than your SLA An SLA tells you how fast someone will pick up the phone. Good architecture means the phone never rings. Alan DeKok, CEO, InkBridge Networks What is high availability architecture? High availability a... Enterprises Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Scaling your RADIUS ecosystem Not all RADIUS systems are the same, and the system architecture can vary wildly. For example, a network design which works well for 10,000 users will likely not work well for 10,000,000 users. It can... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Designing your network for fail-over An essential part of good network design is to plan for failures. In a RADIUS ecosystem, one major requirement is that clients can always connect to a RADIUS server, and that the system can continue t... Network Architecture
The problem with RADIUS in the cloud The promise of cloud-hosted infrastructure sounds tempting. Someone else manages your database, you pay only for what you need, you may have better data security, and the database can scale up with yo... Network Architecture
Database design principles for RADIUS systems Database design is often overlooked as a critical element of a RADIUS ecosystem. In practice, when we work with our clients, we usually spend the bulk of our time optimizing the database architecture.... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Preventing fraudulent logins with a session database In today's enterprise computer networks, credential sharing is a big problem for ISPs and companies with multiple locations. When an ISP runs RADIUS servers across different sites , new attack vectors... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Disaster-proof your network critical infrastructure If you live in an earthquake zone, it’s important to engineer buildings to survive an earthquake. You don’t know when an earthquake will happen, or where exactly, or how big it’s going to be, but you ... Network Architecture Network Security Best Practices
RADIUS design for internet service providers (ISPs) More than almost any other business, internet service providers (ISPs) need to provide their customers with fast, reliable internet connection to their computer network. Any downtime can be catastroph... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture