Implementing eduroam at your Organisation (JANET)

eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community.
eduroam provides an infrastructure that allows users to authenticate onto a visited network (wireless and/or wired) using their home site credentials, without any local administrative burden or complexities on the user or the local IT staff.

Topics Covered

• Overview of eduroam

• EAP, 802.1X and RADIUS

• Visited and Home organisation configuration

• Deployment of service (using FreeRadius as the Radius server software)

• Security

• eduroam monitoring and support

• Troubleshooting

All delegates will receive a full colour workbook specifically written for this course.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

About JANET

JANET is the network dedicated to the needs of education and research in the UK. It connects the UK’s education and research organisations to each other, as well as to the rest of the world through links to the global Internet. In addition, JANET includes a separate network that is available to the community for experimental activities in network development.

The JANET network connects UK universities, FE Colleges, Research Councils, Specialist Colleges and Adult and Community Learning providers. It also provides connections between the Regional Broadband Consortia to facilitate the DfE initiative for a national schools’ network. Over 18 million end-users are currently served by the JANET network.
www.ja.net

Register here for June 21st 2012.

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