The authentication foundation: How federation standards enable network convergence The promise of network convergence is one network for everything. Delivering it comes down to authentication: a single identity that works the same across Wi-Fi, broadband, and cellular. Alan DeKok, C... IETF and RADIUS Standards Industry Insights and Trends Internet Service Providers
Why there are no real RADIUS alternatives Every few years, someone announces that RADIUS is dead. They are still wrong. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks The specifics vary. Sometimes the argument is that RADIUS is too old, rely... IETF and RADIUS Standards Industry Insights and Trends Network Security Protocols
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
IETF Bangkok 122 recap: What we're doing to advance RADIUS standards I've recently returned from IETF Bangkok, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 122 meeting, where I spent a week working with implementers, operators, and standards authors who are defining the ... IETF and RADIUS Standards
Announcing SRADIUS RADIUS has used MD5 for security for almost thirty years. It is time to use a modern alternative: SRADIUS! We just released an Internet-Draft which defines “Secure RADIUS”, or “SRADIUS”. We also have ... IETF and RADIUS Standards
RADIUS standards compliance: from RFC to WiFi Alliance We believe that standards compliance is critical for customer satisfaction and vendor interoperability. Systems that follow standards have known, documented behaviour, so there are few surprises. Our ... IETF and RADIUS Standards