Access Providers are key to the scalability of RADIUSdesk deployments. This document will look at some of the principles around Access Providers.
Access Providers give us the opportunity to create little islands within RADIUSdesk that allows many independent people to use one RADIUSdesk system.
These Access Providers and the environment which they create can be isolated from others.
On top of this is the possibility for an Access Provider to create lower-level Access Providers. This opens up the door to a powerful hierarchical system.
If your deployment of RADIUSdesk will possibly grow quite large, the following methodology is recommended.