The RADIUS server nobody understands You inherited a RADIUS server. You were told never to touch it. The one person who understood it left years ago. It’s a problem waiting to happen. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks Every... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Your RADIUS system works. Does anyone know why? The engineer who handled your RADIUS server management has moved on. The system is still running. But did anyone document why it was built the way it was? Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networ... Industry Insights and Trends Network Architecture
How to scale eduroam RADIUS across multiple sites The hardest problems in running eduroam at national scale have almost nothing to do with RADIUS. They are problems of architecture. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks Running eduroam RADI... Education Network Architecture
Why there is no FreeRADIUS GUI There is no official FreeRADIUS GUI. Here is what does exist, what it will and will not do for you, and why the missing piece is unnecessary. Jana Sedivy, VP Customer Experience Product, InkBridge Net... FreeRADIUS Technical Guides Industry Insights and Trends
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
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
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
What maintainers get wrong about open-source supply chain security Open source supply chain attacks are not primarily a technical problem - they are a governance problem. And most projects are solving the wrong one. ByAlan DeKok, CEO, InkBridge Networks Two incidents... Network Security Best Practices Network Security Protocols