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 not usually because of a security breach, but something more mundane – network architecture. Many ISPs are still running on legacy network architecture that may have served them well enough when their subscriber base was smaller, but simply doesn’t scale to as they grow.
InkBridge Networks, the company behind the world's most widely used RADIUS server, is hosting a technical webinar on the architecture patterns that allow ISPs to scale authentication systems from tens of thousands to millions of subscribers without hitting the performance bottlenecks and availability failures that plague most deployments.
The 30-minute session on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 12:00 pm ET will be led by Alan DeKok, CEO of InkBridge Networks and creator of FreeRADIUS, who has spent 25 years designing large-scale authentication systems for ISPs worldwide. DeKok will address the critical gap between "we need to scale" and "we've built infrastructure that handles subscriber growth measured in six figures."
"The ISPs that fail at scaling are making garden-variety mistakes, repeating the same design patterns that create single points of failure and performance bottlenecks," said DeKok. " I can tell you exactly where projects stall out, which architecture patterns actually work under load, and how to avoid the mistakes that turn an outage into a multi-day crisis that makes the news."
The webinar targets system administrators, network architects, and engineering leaders at Internet service providers who are responsible for subscriber access infrastructure and availability requirements. The session will cover proven architecture patterns for scaling RADIUS systems to millions of active subscribers, high availability designs that eliminate single points of failure, and the common configuration mistakes that create catastrophic bottlenecks when subscriber counts grow.
According to DeKok, most ISPs underestimate the complexity of authentication infrastructure until it's too late. "You can't just throw more hardware at authentication problems. When ISPs hit 100,000 subscribers, they discover that the architecture decisions they made years ago with 10,000 subscribers have turned their authentication system into a bottleneck that can't be fixed with a simple upgrade. Proper architecture from day one is the difference between smooth scaling and a technical nightmare that requires ripping everything out and starting over."
The webinar format is intentionally technical, with 20 minutes of architectural guidance followed by 10 minutes of live Q&A.
DeKok and his team created FreeRADIUS, which powers authentication for ISPs serving subscriber bases from thousands to tens of millions worldwide. When authentication vendors hit technical roadblocks, they consult with DeKok. When ISPs need systems that deliver the availability and performance they've promised their subscribers, they call InkBridge Networks.
Registration Information The webinar is free to attend and open to all interested participants.
About InkBridge Networks
InkBridge Networks engineers, supports, and installs foundational network solutions for authentication and network security. The core team at InkBridge Networks founded and continues to maintain the open-source FreeRADIUS Project, the world’s most popular RADIUS server, supporting 100s of millions of users every day.
Formerly known as Network RADIUS, the company has an international team of network access architects and engineers with decades of experience providing complex, low-risk network solutions, including RADIUS, DHCPv4, DHCPv6, TACACS+, and DNS.
InkBridge Networks provides solutions engineering, support packages, consulting, and training optimized for mid-size to large enterprises, Internet service providers and universities. InkBridge Networks products are used by OEM vendors as the basis for nearly all available RADIUS solutions. Learn more at InkBridgeNetworks.com.
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