Rebuilding ISP authentication helped Herotel add 150,000 subscribers When Herotel needed RADIUS authentication that could survive South Africa's power grid and scale past a million subscribers, three engineering firsts came with it. Herotel is a South African fibre and... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
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
Client Case Study: Fixing a network bottleneck When subscriber growth pushed a major telecommunications provider's authentication infrastructure beyond its breaking point, threatening service quality for 15 million customers, we delivered a 300x p... Network Architecture
Most ISPs Hit a Scalability Wall at 100,000 Subscribers—This Webinar Shows You How to Architect for Millions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jana Sedivy InkBridge Networks jana.sedivy@inkbridgenetworks.com InkBridgeNetworks.com OTTAWA, CANADA – October 17, 2025 When an ISP goes down in the middle of the night, it’s no... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Client Case Study: Network authentication at scale 65% fewer authentication failures. 40% drop in support tickets. How InkBridge Networks is helping educational institutions by transforming their eduroam experience with protocol-level fixes. The scale... 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