What does Arch Red do?

Nowadays we are actually a company group, which consists of Finnish Internet Engineering Company Arch Red Oy and Australian security (AAA) software vendor Open System Consultants Pty Ltd. Since Arch Red Oy acquired Open System Consultants Pty Ltd, we have focused into developing products and services around Radiator AAA (authentication, authorisation, accounting) software as well as developing Radiator itself.

The Radiator products and services have become our primary focus and business. We have developed Radiator further, designed and implemented features, which make it even more suitable for operator and carrier use. This year we released our new NFV compatible Radiator product, Radiator VNF and have released already the second minor version (2017.1) of it. If you are interested about what Radiator VNF does, you should check this Good News from Finland article about us or see our Radiator VNF video in Youtube.

We do not post a lot to this Arch Red blog anymore, but you can find far more material and things what we do from our Radiator Cookbook blog.

Australian RADIUS experts and Finnish Internet engineers combine forces

The Finnish Internet engineering company Arch Red Oy expands its global operations by acquiring a controlling interest in Australian software company Open System Constultants Pty Ltd (OSC). OSC's main product Radiator RADIUS server is one of the most comprehensive RADIUS servers on the market. It is a base component for implementing both wireless (WLAN, 3G, 4G) and wired customer authentication solutions, which Arch Red has delivered to its operator and company customers in cooperation with OSC for several years.

Through this cooperation Arch Red gains access to OSC's active resellers in almost 50 countries and direct customer contacts with many operators and an even larger number of enterprises, universities and organisations around the world.

"By combining Arch Red and OSC, we can serve our existing and new customers even more efficiently and comprehensively than before." Arch Red managing director, Karri Huhtanen, explains and continues:

"In addition to developing Radiator further, we will also develop new customer services by offering, for example, ready-to-use RADIUS authentication solutions as subscription based cloud services.

For more information, please contact:

Karri Huhtanen

managing director, Arch Red Oy

+358 44 087 6546 www.archred.com

About the companies

Arch Red Oy is a Finnish Internet engineering company, which offers both products and services to service providers for wireless (Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G) user authentication, management and roaming. Arch Red also offers solutions and services for white-label Wi-Fi and community network user and guest authentication.

Open System Consultants Pty Ltd is an Australian software company. Its main product is Radiator RADIUS server software, which has customers in 180 countries and resellers in over 46 countries around the world. Radiator RADIUS server software is used in operator and service provider networks around the world for user authentication, provisioning and configuration management. Radiator RADIUS server is also a central component in deploying Wi-Fi network authentication and when Wi-Fi authentication is connected to the 3G/4G network authentication infrastructure.

Open System Consultants Ltd. and Arch Red Ltd. to enhance Radiator expert services via cooperation agreement

Open System Consultants, the maker of the "Swiss Army knife of RADIUS Servers" and Finnish Internet architecture expertise company Arch Red have signed a joint agreement to strengthen their cooperation in providing expert services based on OSC's Radiator RADIUS server.

Arch Red brings 8 years experience with Radiator, building RADIUS implementations for eduroam(tm) in Finland, its commercial application, the Wireless Tampere community network as well as for traditional Internet and mobile service providers.

The new closer cooperation between Open System Consultants and Arch Red provides new opportunities for both expert services and product development, Arch Red managing Director, Karri Huhtanen says.

Mike McCauley, OSC's managing director welcomes the synergies this new cooperation offers. With Arch Red's application experience, we can together provide the highest quality access solutions and technical support to our mutual customers.

Arch Red Guest Server v3.0 is coming

A new version (v3.0.0) of Arch Red's guest management software (Arch Red Guest Server v3.0) is nearing its release. A pre-release demo version (2.9.13) is already installed to our demo site. For more information about the demo and user credentials see:

http://www.archred.com/products/arch-red-guest-server/arch-red-guest-server-demo

Products and examples - see things that Arch Red does

Product summaries page comes from the experience gathered from the presentations and courses we have given. There is always the moment when the topics are put together, so why not look at the products as a whole too? We already had the products listed individually, and now the summary page shows how they relate to each other, how they can be used to build complete systems and the possibilities to use them with products from others.

Besides products, the page has also architecture design examples. Our products are based on the knowledge we have about what works and what are the right building blocks for a successful design. Depending on the needs of the customer we can use our own products or choose something from the other vendors. Like the examples show, we do not always try to build everything from scratch, but take whatever works best for reaching the requirements.

Guest Server 2.6.1 released

Arch Red Guest Server 2.6.1 has been released. The release includes one feature and many small enhancements. Now when creating guest accounts, the duration for the accounts can be set.

What is duration? For example, a guest account is created so that it is valid until December 31st and has duration of 24 hours. The guest can log in any time before December 31st, and when the first login happens, the account is valid only for the next 24 hours.

Duration could be specified in the previous versions too, but only for anonymous accounts. Now the duration is also available for personal accounts.

See the demo page for more information about WWW and RADIUS demo.

Arch Red and Cisco power the NORDUnet2008 WLAN network

Arch Red and Cisco Finland joined forces with CSC to provide an eduroam(tm) compatible WLAN guest network for NORDUnet2008 conference 7th -- 11th of April 2008 in Dipoli, Espoo, Finland. The network was designed by Arch Red and build with Cisco 4400 WLAN controller and 12 AP1130AG access points. This gave the conference participants a choice of WPA/WPA2-authenticated eduroam(tm) network as well as completely open WLAN for unsecured, easy guest access. In cooperation with CSC the WLAN network in conference also supported state-of-art network technologies like IPv6 and multicast with enough bandwidth in radio and fixed network for all conference participants and also for streaming services. Arch Red also provided the RADIUS connectivity to eduroam(tm) WLAN roaming community for secured international WiFi roaming access.

By utilising Arch Red expertise and Cisco hardware, creating and deploying this kind of conference network was efficient and a quick way to provide reliable 2.4Ghz and 4GHz WiFi wireless access for all conference participants quickly.