# daloRADIUS 7th Anniversary – 2014 Wrap-up — Liran Tal

Celebrating 7 years of daloRADIUS project and it's success in the RADIUS networking and WiFi hotspots industry

Canonical: https://lirantal.com/blog/2014-06-20

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The [daloRADIUS](http://www.daloradius.com/) project is celebrating it’s 7th Anniversary this month as a mature product on [SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/p/daloradius/) and one of the most leading open source project in this industry! I had a feeling I’d need to convince you so here’s the pitch with some slides and backing this up with numbers and data:

[DaloRADIUS 2014 – 7th Anniversary](http://www.scribd.com/doc/229669233/DaloRADIUS-2014-7th-Anniversary "View DaloRADIUS 2014 - 7th Anniversary on Scribd")

[![daloradius-logo-transparent](https://web.archive.org/web/20140625165454im_/http://enginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/daloradius-logo-transparent.png)](http://enginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/daloradius-logo-transparent.png)

[daloRADIUS](http://www.daloradius.com/) project was founded way back in the early days of April-May 2007.

It started out as a mundane open source project which I desired to develop due to the unsupported and lack of solution in this [Network](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_operations_center) [Operations Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_operations_center) (NOC) and overall RADIUS-based niche audience. Back then the **only** open source solution for managing a [RADIUS](http://freeradius.org/) based deployment was `dialupadmin`, which was pretty poor in features, if to be honest, and it amazed me that no one else jumped the gun here.

***Illustration – The RADIUS Protocol in a nut-shell***

[![radius-protocol](https://web.archive.org/web/20140625165454im_/http://enginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/radius-protocol.gif)](http://enginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/radius-protocol.gif)

And so it has began. I was out of work (then quitting a cool startup position due to no foreseeable career growth) and with nothing but time on my hands to kick off this project. One of the hardest thing I ever had to do was figure out how to name this project – one of the most annoying problems software engineers are faced with daily – naming variables, functions, classes and sometimes even their own projects.

[![daloradius-interview-snippet-2008-freesoftwaremagazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20140625165454im_/http://enginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/daloradius-interview-snippet-2008-freesoftwaremagazine.png)](http://enginx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/daloradius-interview-snippet-2008-freesoftwaremagazine.png)

If you’re hungry for the juicy gossip of why I ended up calling this project [daloRADIUS](http://www.daloradius.com/), you might want to give a quick read to an interview I had with t[he FreeSoftwareMagazine](http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/) - [http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview\_liran\_tal\_author\_daloradius](http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_liran_tal_author_daloradius)

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