eduroam is a concept that originally developed in Europe that enabled the automation of time consuming administration of authenticating and authorising guest users with wireless access. By creating a hierarchy of RADIUS proxy servers a simple but effective federation was created to enable users to authenticate using their home institution credentials with controls on what an authenticated user is authorise to access (services) under the control of the institution the guest is visiting.
eduroam is a secure federated authentication solution to enable researchers and visiting scholars (even students where applicable) to gain automatic access to network access using their own home organisation credentials. When deployed it reduces admin resources to support guests on campus, and extends access to staff/students visiting other participating organisations. [1]
In Australia, AARNet has formed an eduroam project group to develop best practice, documentation and workshops to encourage a greater adoption and use of eduroam with practical solutions to address concerns in guest use of bandwidth.
eduroam (Education Roaming) is a RADIUS-based infrastructure that uses 802.1x security technology to allow for inter-institutional roaming. Being part of eduroam allows users visiting a federated institution to log on to the local wireless network using the same credentials (username and password) as at their home institution.
Q. Where is eduroam access available at the University of Melbourne?
A. eduroam access is available in all the same places as the University staff and student network – UniWireless. [4]
[1] eduroam Project Group [AARNET]
[2] eduroam public wiki [AARNET]
[3] eduroam [eduroam]
[4] Wireless FAQs [InfoDiv UNIMELB]
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