coe-staff: Fwd: deptcomp: Announcing eduroam WiFi roaming

[Terry Kneen]

If you travel to other higher education institutions or have guests from some institutions getting wireless access can be pretty easy. Please see the announcement below.

Terry

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Terry Kneen
Instructional Systems Coordinator
College of Education
1215 University of Oregon
Eugene, Or 97403-1215
541 346-2328




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From: Patrick Chinn <pchinn at uoregon.edu<mailto:pchinn at uoregon.edu>>
Date: October 8, 2012 11:49:29 AM PDT
To: Departmental Computing <deptcomp at lists.uoregon.edu<mailto:deptcomp at lists.uoregon.edu>>
Subject: deptcomp: Announcing eduroam WiFi roaming
Reply-To: Departmental Computing List <deptcomp at lists.uoregon.edu<mailto:deptcomp at lists.uoregon.edu>>

Information Services is excited to announce that eduroam is now available at the University of Oregon.

eduroam is a secure, worldwide WiFi roaming service that gives students, faculty, and staff WiFi access when visiting participating institutions. You and your customers can log in to the eduroam WiFi network with your Duck ID at more than 6,200 institutions worldwide, and people visiting UO can log in to eduroam WiFi here with their own credentials. No guest accounts are necessary!*

For more about eduroam at UO, see https://it.uoregon.edu/about-eduroam.

Using eduroam requires some device configuration; the process is similar to setting up UO Secure. For step-by-step directions, see https://it.uoregon.edu/node/3325.

Background
The University of Oregon is the first OUS institution to join eduroam. Currently, the service is available at about 100 institutions in the United States and over 5,500 institutions, mostly in western Europe, eastern Asia, and Australia/New Zealand.

Service in the United States should expand considerably: on October 2, 2012, Internet2 announced it would cover the cost of eduroam adoption for its 221 member universities after securing a grant from the National Science Foundation. See http://goo.gl/arWZm for details.

What this means to you
Over the next several weeks, Information Services will start spreading the word about eduroam. Your students, staff, and faculty may ask questions about eduroam. We encourage you to take a moment to read about eduroam and share the news with your customers who travel frequently.

Patrick Chinn

Interim Communications Manager
Information Services
University of Oregon
541-346-0933 (office)
pchinn at uoregon.edu<mailto:pchinn at uoregon.edu>

* For guests visiting from eduroam-participating institutions

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