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eduroam

Global Internet Access for the R&E Community

Universal Access

Members of your organisation receive seamless access to participating campus networks around the globe

My Campus

Visitors on your campus can autonomously connect and authenticate on your guest network

Users

Benefits for Users
  • Worldwide access to the university network
  • Free access to your university's network at a large number of public hotspots
  • Easy and secure login
  • Usable on any device 

Organisation

Services for Organisations
  • Technical support for IT departments
  • Hosting of RADIUS infrastructure
  • Acquisition of roaming partnerships
  • Statistics and Monitoring
  • Coordination with global eduroam DevOps

Reach out to us:

eduroam-support@switch.ch

RADIUS Server

SWITCH offers eduroam support to various degrees: From assistance in getting your organisation started to operating the complete infrastructure for you.

Where can i eduroam?

Check out the interactive map showing all eduroam hot spots
eduroam hotspots

About eduroam

The basic idea behind eduroam is to provide free, unrestricted access to the Internet. Eduroam only handles authentication and authorization of the users. The actual Internet access is provided locally.

The eduroam initiative started in 2003 within TERENA's Task Force on Mobility, TF-Mobility. Today eduroam is a federation of federations (confederation); single federations are run at national level and they are all connected to a regional confederation. Thus eduroam is avaliable at almost all universities worldwide.

eduroam infrastructure

eduroam technology is based on 802.1X standard (typically used with a 802.11 wireless network with WPA2 Enterprise authentication) and a hierarchy of RADIUS proxy servers. The wireless eduroam networks use the SSID 'eduroam'.

The role of the RADIUS hierarchy is to forward the users' credentials to the users' home institution, where they can be verified and validated.

When a user requests authentication, the user's realm determines where the request is routed to. The realm is the suffix of the user-name, delimited with '@', and is derived from the organisation's DNS domain name.

Every university that wants to participate in eduroam connects its institutional RADIUS-server to the national top-level RADIUS (NTLR) server of the country where the institution is located. The NTLRs are in turn connected to the regional top-level RADIUS server (European top-level RADIUS, ETLR, in case of Europe), which themselves form the root of the hierarchy in a full-mesh topology.

Further information can be found on the eduroam.org website.

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