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Webinar 8th and 10th March 2022

Agenda for the webinar
● Radiator Software news and updates in our product and services portfolio
● Radiator Auth.Fi - our new secure and easy service for Wi-Fi authentication
● Connecting OpenRoaming™ roaming federation service with Radiator
● Radiator VNF Flex - new and flexible approach to AAA VNF with Radiator
● Using Radiator in eduroam and other roaming services
● Using Radiator with utility networks
● Experiences from using Radiator as replacement for products nearing
end-of-life

Radiator AAA Server software
Customers in OVER 180 countries
HUNDREDS of ACTIVE CUSTOMERS ranging from
SINGLE HOTELS to GLOBAL OPERATORS
Trusted OEM component in HUNDREDS of MOBILE NETWORKS
Regional PARTNERS in OVER 50 COUNTRIES

Radiator Software in brief
Radiator Software is a Finnish-Australian company group, which
provides RADIUS/Diameter Authentication, Authorisation and
Accounting (AAA) software products, support and services.
Radiator is the AAA server for serious ISPs and carriers who
want power and flexibility to meet the needs of their changing
technical environment and growing user base. Our customers say
that Radiator is the Swiss Army knife of RADIUS servers.

Recent development work
● Radiator 4.26, released Oct 2021
○ Radiator GBA/BSF Pack 1.8, released Feb 2022
○ Radiator SIM Pack 2.7, released Nov 2021
■ Including support for IMSI Privacy for SIM authentication
○ Radiator Carrier Pack 1.7, released Nov 2021
● Full product history for Radiator:
○ https://radiatorsoftware.com/products/radiator/history/
● Radiator Auth.Fi & Radiator VNF Flex: see next slides

Radiator Auth.Fi
Enterprise Wi-Fi Authentication as a Service

Radiator Auth.Fi service
● Radiator Auth.Fi is a RADIUS based Wi-Fi authentication cloud service for
authenticating WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise Wi-Fi network and separate guest
Wi-Fi network users.
● Radiator Auth.Fi provides a self-service email user account registration for
regular Wi-Fi users, and a captive portal with self-service registration for
guest Wi-Fi users.
● The service can be used also for fixed network (802.1X) and VPN
authentication with PEAP, EAP-TTLS and optionally EAP-TLS EAP
methods.
● The service requires only that WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise capable Wi-Fi
network hardware is deployed, captive portal is supported with Cisco and
Aruba hardware (with Extreme support coming).

WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise Wi-Fi access

Self-service, passwordless Guest Wi-Fi access

Radiator Auth.Fi service provides…
● Self-service, permanent Wi-Fi user account registration and verification
service
● RADIUS authentication service for WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise Wi-Fi
networks – only WPA2/WPA Enterprise capable Wi-Fi controller needed
● Self-service, password-less guest Wi-Fi network authentication service
● Optional X.509 client certificate authentication RADIUS service for
WPA/WPA3 Enterprise Wi-Fi networks
● Roaming federation (eduroam, govroam, roam.fi) compatible Service
Provider (SP) and Identity Provider (IdP) functionality
● In 2022 optional WBA OpenRoaming compatible settlement-free Service
Provider (SP) functionality for easy, self-service WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise
Wi-Fi guest network access and Identity Provider (IdP) functionality for
providing settlement-free OpenRoaming access for organisation’s
roaming users.

OpenRoaming with Radiator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvhZouk6MKM

OpenRoaming with Radiator
● Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), provides OpenRoaming™, a roaming
federation service enabling an automatic and secure Wi-Fi experience globally
○ Roaming revenue opportunities for (Wi-Fi) service providers, a better and
more secure self-service guest network for all organisations.
● For OpenRoaming™, support both for RadSec and DNS service discovery is needed
○ Radiator AAA Server Software supports already both of these and with
Radiator SIM Pack also SIM authentication with IMSI privacy protection -
making Wi-Fi roaming easy and secure
● Radiator team can offer you a complete package: providing the software, the
installation and the configuration assistance in order to join OpenRoaming™
● New Radiator services such as Radiator Auth.Fi make it even easier to enable
settlement-free roaming for your guest networks or own roaming users.

Radiator VNF Flex
Radiator path through NFV jungle

First version: Radiator VNF 2018

More complexity => Less flexibility
Great for certain use
cases, but inflexible and
overly complex for some
others
Too many
managers
and
changing
interfaces

ETSI NFV Releases
● 2017-2018: NFV Release 3:
○ expected to be completed 2020
○ NFV 3 Release Description v0.8.1 (Dec 2021)
● 2019-2020: NFV Release 4:
○ Ongoing work started 2019
○ “As of October 2020, a first drop of interfaces and information model level
specifications has been released including part of the aspects concerning
"Cloud-native VNFs and container infrastructure management".”
○ NFV 4 Release Description v0.3.0 (Dec 2021)
● Making a product NFV Release something compatible is a moving target.
The standards, specifications and various implementations create an NFV
jungle, which makes figuring and following a path forward difficult.

Radiator path through VNF jungle…
● What if virtualisation infrastructure (VI, NFVI) would not
matter?
● What if you would not have to choose between
traditional virtualisation and container based NFV
before you are really ready to deploy?
● What if you could utilise your existing Radiator
configurations and only apply better management,
automation and scaling to your Radiator servers and
instances?

Radiator VNF 2022 => Radiator VNF Flex
<= OpenStack first,
but will add other
cloud support
according to
customer interest.
Multiple VNFs or
hosts in one VI can
be handled by one
Radiator VNF
Manager.
Radiator VNF
architecture is not
limited, can be this
or something
completely
different.
Radiator VNF Flex
focuses in
managing and
scaling Radiator.
Supporting
infrastructure is
kept out of scope
to preserve
Radiator’s
flexibility.
Radiator VNF
Manager ensures
that MANO or VI
upgrades cause
only minimal work
for Radiator
infrastructure
management.

Learn more about Radiator VNF Flex
● If you have an active Radiator or RADIUS upgrade
project, please contact us for remote conference.
● We are looking for Radiator VNF Flex adopters and
are interested in their feedback.
● Follow us in Twitter (RadiatorAAA) or in LinkedIn
(Radiator Software) for coming Radiator VNF Flex
webinar

Radiator Use Cases
Real life deployments

Use case: Radiator and eduroam
● Radiator Software has huge global customer base of educational /
research facility customers that use Radiator AAA server software in order
to join eduroam roaming federation.
○ Radiator Software delivers both products and services for turn-key
deployment of eduroam.
● In addition to individual organizations to eduroam, Radiator is in use in
roaming federation level as well
○ Combined with our commitment to eduroam development work, this
has given us extensive insight into the use cases of eduroam in
different organizations.
● *) eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the
international research and education community.

Benefits of using Radiator with eduroam
● The diversity of organisations and identity solutions require adaptation
and flexibility.
● Radiator has the exceptionally wide support for various authentication
sources and interfaces
● Radiator is already used to adapt, translate and complement various
other vendor solutions to connect organisations to identity
federations, such as eduroam
● Field-tested complete configurations for various use cases help create
turn-key solutions - combined with support from our experienced
team.

Radiator use cases in utilities (power management
systems, water systems)
Water monitoring organizations use remote sensor networks
to monitor data such as reservoir levels, stream flows, etc.
Those sensors, often equipped with mobile data transceivers,
are critical components of the water management system, and
therefore need to be authenticated.
For one of our major customers in this field, we have provided a
RADIUS authentication solution, using Radiator AAA Server
Software to authenticate around 2000 active devices currently
in active service.
After the authentication is done, the sensors send their
telemetry data to specialized data repositories for processing,
analysis, and display, in order for customer organizations to
know the real-time status of their water system.
Another use case, where secure access is critical, is the power
system management. Radiator is used to provide secure
authentication, and can also be used to receive accounting
data.
The standard way to do this secure authentication is role-based
access control (RBAC) for power system management. RBAC
assigns human users, automated systems, and software
applications to specific roles, and restricts their access to only
those resources, which the security policies identify as
necessary for their roles.
As a part of being compliant to industry standards, Radiator
also supports role-based access control (IEC 62351-8) in power
systems and the related RADIUS attributes specified in the
standard.

Replacing end-of-life products with
Radiator
● Recently, especially many Cisco ACS
users have been contacting us, as the
product is reaching EOL
● Radiator can be run on different
platforms, supports different
authentication methods and has flexible
configuration options, so it is seen as a
natural replacement for many use cases
● Only the installation Radiator into your
preferred platform, implement the initial
configuration, and integrate Radiator to
your preferred database - and logging &
management systems

Thank you. Questions, Comments?
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