Eduroam

What is eduroam?

“Eduroam is an acronym for Education Roaming. It is IT infrastructure necessary for the transparent use of university and other educational institution networks. The idea was conceived at TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association)."^[1]

The eduroam structure provides network roaming to members of an association who use the technology. To put it simply: A user has one account (in his/her home network) and this account authorizes him/her to use the wireless network of any other project member. In other words, you only need one username and password to connect to any eduroam network.

Connection conditions

The rules for using the eduroam network are defined by the roaming policy of the network. Users have the following obligations:

• Each roaming user must follow the roaming terms and conditions of the host and home networks and the principles of acceptable use of the academic CESNET network - see www.cesnet.cz.
• Each roaming user must immediately respond to requests made and instructions given by the host and home networks and the CESNET roaming centre.
• Each roaming user is fully liable for the abuse of his/her personal data (password, certificate, etc.) enabling network access.

Eduroam at BIOCEV

At the moment, BIOCEV is only working as a service provider. It does not provide users with login information enabling them to connect to the eduroam network. All institutions involved in the BIOCEV project issue login information to eduroam for their users.

Coverage

Eduroam is available in all BIOCEV buildings.

Contact

ithelpdesk@biocev.eu

Technical Parameters

• SSID: eduroam
• Authentication: 802.1x
• Security: WPA2
• Encryption: AES
• IP addresses: private IPv4
• The operation is filtered by a firewall in line with BIOCEV´s internal regulations.
• Subject to exceptions, the eduroam network is separated from BIOCEV´s regular operations

• The Czech eduroam website contains a list of locations where the service can be used.
• The central eduroam website - provides comprehensive information about the eduroam project throughout the world.

The eduroam name and logo are a registered trademark of TERENA.