Radiator product
Radiator Core
Radiator Core is the Radiator 10 server for operators. It runs the same high-performance engine as Radiator Policy Server, packaged for ISPs and communication service providers with IP pool allocation towards broadband gateways, a dashboard, a REST API, Lua scripting and official container images.
The problem
Operator AAA has to scale, be automated and fit a container platform, while still speaking the RADIUS dialects that broadband gateways, OLTs and billing systems expect.
Target outcome
Carrier-scale AAA deployed and operated like the rest of your platform, with the protocol fidelity of Radiator.
What Radiator Core is
Radiator Core is the operator edition of Radiator 10. It shares the Rust-based engine, dashboard, log viewer, REST API, Lua scripting and container images of Radiator Policy Server, and adds IP pool allocation to broadband network gateways from files, SQL or REST. The dashboard covers monitoring and licence management, and metrics are exposed for Prometheus.
Where it is used
- Fixed-line and fibre subscriber authentication at broadband network gateways and OLTs, including GPON, XG-PON and XGS-PON access
- Decentralised Wi-Fi offload networks
- High-throughput enterprise and campus authentication where the Radiator 10 engine’s performance matters
The operator line
Radiator Software’s operator products are Radiator Core, RadiatorDB, the Service Provider Pack, the SIM Pack, the Policy and Charging Pack and the GBA/BSF Pack. The packs are Radiator 4 generation products that run with Radiator AAA Server and cover Diameter, SIM authentication, policy and charging interfaces and VoLTE bootstrapping. We design which components your deployment needs.
Licensing and support
Priced on subscriber numbers and quoted per deployment. Level9 Networks supplies and supports Radiator Core in the UK with escalation to Radiator Software. See licensing.
FAQ
Questions people ask
Does Radiator Core run in Kubernetes?
Radiator Software publishes official container images for amd64 and arm64 and has documented a Finnish operator running a pair of Radiator Core instances in Kubernetes for fixed-line AAA. We confirm platform requirements and sizing for your environment during evaluation.
Does Radiator Core support SIM authentication?
SIM-based EAP and the 3GPP AAA interfaces are provided by the SIM Pack, which is part of the Radiator 4 generation and runs with Radiator AAA Server. Operator deployments often combine both, and we design the split during evaluation.
How fast is it?
Radiator Software reports close to ten thousand EAP-TLS 1.3 authentications per second from a default installation, and publishes a performance case study. Real figures depend on your back-ends, which is what the evaluation measures.
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