Conveners
Roaming Through: Roaming Through
- Paul Dekkers (SURF)
Description
Being able to roam across networks is an important asset in NREN networks. While everyone's first - and quite likely second, and third-thought on that topic is: "eduroam!" - there are limits to its coverage and applicability. Interesting things are happening, both inside eduroam regarding scale-up and geographic outreach - and outside. In this session, we will hear two eduroam talks from our international colleagues in the U.S.A. and Uganda, and one talk aiming to bring the
benefits of roaming to devices which are too technically constrained to be compatible with eduroam.
Internet2 spent 2021 moving our eduroam infrastructure to the public cloud (Amazon Web Services) to better support the scaling of our service to primary and secondary schools, as well as museums, libraries, and other public locations that might be available to students.
This presentation is structured to be of interest to other NRENs who want to understand our journey; how we made the...
In both enterprise and education, the need for Wi-Fi is growing. Traditionally, users connect with their laptops or smartphones to the network, by using eduroam they can uniquely identify themselves at the edge of the network using their personal credentials. Some devices, in particular IoT devices do not support the WPA-Enterprise/802.1x standards that eduroam relies on. Many of these devices...
The presentation will describe the deployment architectures used, the problems and challenges faced during and after the deployment of the service, the benefits of the rollout, and the observations in traffic patterns and authentication requests. Whereas the initial deployment of metro eduroam has been a success, it is important to note that the current coverage is limited to only the capital...
