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eduroam for temporary events

Deployment of eduroam at a conference or event

eduroam is a wireless networking service for users of the education and research sector world-wide. It is based on IT industry standards which many enterprise-class wireless networking equipment supports. In generic terms, the WiFi equipment for your event or conference needs to support the following standard for use with eduroam:

  • IEEE 802.11i Enterprise (WPA2/AES with RADIUS authentication)

It is not usually necessary to set up and operate a RADIUS server at the conference side. Instead, eduroam Operations operates RADIUS servers for that purpose. If your event is taking place always in the same country, you should contact the eduroam National Roaming Operator (NRO) for your country to negotiate the RADIUS uplink for your WiFi equipment. You can get in touch with the responsible NRO by using this contact form ("My organisation wants to connect to eduroam") - make sure that you mention that you are seeking a temporary connection as Service Provider only.

If your event takes place in varying locations, eduroam Operations can provide you with a "catch-all" RADIUS server uplink. Please use the same contact form as in the previous paragraph, but select "My country is not in the list...".

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