For over 11 years eduroam has been streamlining the mobile user experience and making it easier for researchers and students on the go to collaborate and innovate. With millions of transactions a day across over 60 countries the eduroam approach has scaled and kept abreast of the fast pace of change in ICT and explosive growth in mobile devices. Tapping into the talent pool of the eduroam community has been instrumental to keeping the service relevant and meaningful for the past decade and for more years to come. We'll share how we do this and some of the activities and areas of focus ahead.

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Chris.Phillips@canarie.ca
My digital identity . . .

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Or is it?
Chris
Phillips
Chris
Phillips
Chris
Phillips
Chris
Phillips

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How do you ensure the
“right” Chris Phillips
receives access to your
resources?

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Similar in Name and Mission
Collaborating at a Global Scale

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Ensures a trusted,
unified, digital identity for
research and education

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How Eduroam Works
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Confederation Servers
Federation Server
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Over

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Recent Stats
• Thousands (~10000+) points of presence for eduroam SSID
• 60 countries/regions in production, 27 in pilot
• 60,000,000+ successful transactions processed monthly
• Between 10-13% is international traffic
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161,238
23,553
∑ National ∑ International
Comparing Domestic & International –
May 14th, 2013, 4pm CEST (peak)

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Eduroam Today
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Predicting Growth–Hard, but necessary
• Needed for preservation of quality & enough runway to act
• Crystal BallàAssumptions: ratio 2:87:10000:50MM, or
• 10 countries/yr, ea. w/114 ‘domains’ & 575k signons/mth
• Adding another 30 countries, requires 1 more root server
• No one has any more devices than they do today J
• There are 193 countries/regions worldwide
• ..What does this look 3 years out then?
Today: x87 countries
Today: x2 roots svrs
Today: 10,000+ sites
+3yrs: x117 countries
+3yrs: 3? roots svrs
+3yrs: 13,348+ sites
In 3 years from now..

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The Virtuous Cycle
A condition in which a favourable result
gives rise to another that supports the first

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The Virtuous ICT Cycle

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The Virtuous ICT Cycle

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The Virtuous ICT Cycle
Size increase
Announcing new
eduroam members
Costa Rica (RedCONARE)
Argentina (Innova|RED)
Colombia (RENATA)
Mexico (CUDI)
Ecuador (CEDIA)

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The Virtuous ICT Cycle
Increasing cycle velocity
Recent Activities:
Norway – eduroam in 19 airports
Japan – hosted RADIUS, emergency network
Eduroam Companion, Config Assistant Tool
CAF – Appliance approach to eduroam/SAML

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eduroam in Norway Airports
• 6 month pilot, 19 airports
• SSID is like any other commercial
offering:
• Layer 2 monthly ‘condo fee’
• Per user MB charges, capped
• Unique MAC counts active users
• Early #’s:Oslo ~80% MAC+AuthN
• Outcomes – too early to tell.
eduroam in Trondheim
• Offered by local provider
• Relationship is through school, not
centrally
• SSID is available free

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Japan’s DEAS
RADIUS
IdP
RADIUS
proxy
auth requests
<secret key 2>
Institution’s
RADIUS server
access points
Delegate Authentication System (DEAS) or
Shibboleth-based eduroam account issuer
national
RADIUS
<secret key 1>
AP system by ISP/carrier
national
IdP service

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eduroam in disaster-affected campuses
• Borderless eduroam helped suffering staff
– Nomadic network in temporary evacuation campus
• Tohoku University faced the big earthquake in March.
– Many buildings were severely damaged.
– Staff moved to other buildings where networks are operated by different
departments.
– eduroam is an effective rescue for them to use network --- Inter-
department roaming network
Additional
APs
Eduroam
APs
Center
Damaged
depts
Network
ID

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Eduroam Companion App
• Based on registry & published by XML
• XML files aggregated centrally by eduroam.org & available for apps
• Designed for global use
• Built by University of Southampton, available on android and iPhone

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• Powerful web based
eduroam configuration
delivery system
• Builds & hosts profile
installers for all
platforms and
devices(MSFT,Apple,
Linux)
• Profile = specific
configuration on your
device to connect to the
network
• Delegated admin for all
of eduroam Federation
Level down to site level
• Multi-lingual throughout

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CANARIE CAF Identity Appliance Approach
• Inspired by SWAMID
SAML installer work
• eduroam automated build
of FreeRADIUS takes
minutes to install on
blank CentOS
• Dramatically reduces
overall effort by
participant
• Sometimes longer to talk
about policy and get
firewall settings in place
than to do actual install
• In pilot phase now.

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Eduroam configuration guide by RNP
• Recently published guide for sites configuring eduroam
• Available in hard copy and electronic

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Common Themes
• The tool collection is always expanding and being refined.
• What’s important for you generally will be important to all.
• New or Old, eduroam always has something for you
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Consequences of not participating
• You do everything, as a point solution, on your own
• no common good to draw on
• Cost increases
• Reach stays the same – ie. it diminishes compared to others
• Collaboration is more difficult
• Innovation slows down
• Community by passes you because you can’t keep up

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What does the future
hold for eduroam?

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Buckets of Possible Work
• Monitoring and operational improvements
• Network resilience and robustness
• Continue to make it as easy as possible to use, for all aspects
• Communication & collaboration improvements
• Security
• Research
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Some Signs we are preferred…
• Use of eduroam over ‘free’ wifi
• Eduroam SSID is sought after for conferences and events
• Others emulating the service
• Gaining transit in new areas at reduced costs

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Why ‘Free’ is never really free
• you are always exchanging SOMETHING
• Time – accepting multi-screen Terms & Conditions repetitively.
• Personal data – Do you really need my passport or CPF?
• Security risk - how do I know this wifi won’t do something evil?

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Guiding Principles
• Be where the user needs us to be
• Maintain ease of use
• Continue to be vigilant about security
• Continue to be the advocate for the end user
• Do this consistently and reliably
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You’re Invited!
To join and/or collaborate and be a part of the vibrant eduroam
community.

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Chris Phillips
Chris.phillips@canarie.ca
CANARIE, 45 O’Connor St., Ottawa, Ontario