FAQs​

InkBridge Networks is the company behind FreeRADIUS.  FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS server, meaning that the source code is free to download and use for anyone.  

InkBridge CEO Alan DeKok, originally wrote FreeRADIUS in 1999.  As part of our commitment to open source values, InkBridge Networks maintains the FreeRADIUS codebase, documentation, and moderates the FreeRADIUS mailing list.  Our commercial work provides products and services related to FreeRADIUS and other related network protocols. 

FreeRADIUS is, and will always be, a free open source product. 

Most of the internet. Whether it is ISPs, Telecommunications companies, enterprises, universities, or cloud identity providers, they all use FreeRADIUS.  While some  large companies sell RADIUS servers,  FreeRADIUS is used by more systems than all other RADIUS servers combined. Every day, FreeRADIUS authenticates hundreds of millions of users around the world.

This fact is why at InkBridge Networks, we claim that "We authenticate the Internet".  We made FreeRADIUS, and it is used everywhere, by everyone, for everything.

InkBridgeRADIUS product uses FreeRADIUS as the core RADIUS "engine".  However, many companies need additional functionality which does not fit into a RADIUS server program,  Functionality which  is needed to run the full ecosystem of services around FreeRADIUS.

Our products offer additional monitoring, configuration, reporting, system templating, and automated multi-site management.  All features which would have to be added to a "roll your own" RADIUS solution based on FreeRADIUS.

You can download the source code for free at https://freeradius.org/.  Pre-built packages are available for free at https://packages.networkradius.com

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For decades, our name has been synonymous with RADIUS expertise, for good reason. After all, we build and maintain the most popular RADIUS server in the world, we write a good chunk of the IETF RADIUS standards, and we hosted the world’s first RADIUS conference in March this year. 

Over the last decade however, our products have evolved to support additional foundational network protocols such as DHCP, TACACS+, and DNS. We wanted our company name to reflect this change.

No. 

Our only objective in changing our brand name was to reflect the fact that we do more than just RADIUS now. 

The only thing that will change for you is that you’ll start seeing emails coming from @inkbridge.io instead of @networkradius.com. You may have noticed this already.

The name change only affects the brand name we are operating under, not the legal entity. There is no need to change any vendor registration we already have in place with you.

No. 

We’re still the same team, doing the same work. If you send an email to @networkradius.com, we’ll still receive it. If you have 24/7 support, the support phone number is still the same.

We think that building foundational networks is a little bit like building the bridge that you drive across every day to get to work.

Most likely, the only time you ever think about the bridge is if something has gone wrong with it. If traffic is bad and it slows you down, or if the supports collapse and you suddenly can’t get to where you need to go. 

 If you’re thinking about the bridge, it’s usually a bad sign. 

You want your bridge builders to be experts in construction. You don’t want them to get distracted by the latest new shiny AI enabled tools, you want them to be boring and build something that just works. But mostly, you don’t want to think about the bridge at all. You just want to know that it will always be there for you.

Your foundational network is like that. Most of the time, you don’t want to think about it. Even if traffic is high, or if one of your sites goes down. Everything should just work, so that you can continue going about your business. 

That peace of mind is what we offer our customers. We’re experts in building scaleable, high-availability networks that just work.

So that’s the “Bridge” part of our name. 

The “Ink” part of our new brand is a nod to our deep roots in FreeRADIUS, which has had a long-standing octopus mascot. It may be worth mentioning here that FreeRADIUS will always continue to be Open Source. Our Founder and CEO started FreeRADIUS as an open source project 25 years ago, and we have absolutely no plans to change that.