eduroam

eduroam allows students and staff to gain wireless access to a network of an institution (connected to SURFnet) where they are a guest by using their own institutional account.

What is it?

eduroam uses a number of linked authentication servers to allow users to connect easily to the network of an institution where they are a guest by means of their own wireless device.

For example: a student at Delft University of Technology is taking some courses at Eindhoven University of Technology. He can use eduroam to securely access the wireless network at both institutions.

Internationally too, an increasing number of institutions are utilising eduroam.

See which Dutch institutions are already participating at www.eduroam.nl.

Who is it for?

Institutions connected to SURFnet can make use of eduroam.

The institution’s contact person can apply online for eduroam via SURFdashboard. (Dutch)

Technical information

The basis for eduroam is a hierarchy of linked authentication servers via which user details can be transported securely between institutions. The user’s own institution keeps track of these details and checks them, including when the user is a guest at a different institution.

When a user at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences is a guest at the University of Amsterdam, for example, the authentication server at the latter institution will send the user’s details to the former institution. Only when the authentication server at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences indicates that the user is known to it (i.e. the user name/password combination is correct) will the server at the University of Amsterdam give the user access to that institution’s network.

For more information, go to eduroam site