What is eduroam?

This is an animation designed especially for end users to help spread the message and benefits about eduroam services.
This animation was created by James Sankar, AARNet, with assistance from the AARNet supported eduroam project group and ToThePointProductions (tothepoint-productions@hotmail.com)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• eduroam
• australia
• university
• aarnet

[w00per]

University of Twente is getting this right now...

[aarnetvideo]

we do have a dutch version too - see the aarnetvideo channel

[leighblackall]

Wow! I can access email, watch videos and catch up on study on the move! hang on.. can't I do that already at any internet cafe, library and maccas? Oh that's right, universities are about exclusivity, not inclusiveness. I can get teleported from the stone age into a goatie wearing tourist with money to travel thanks to credit card universities. Thanks Eduroam/ARNET - helping to make the world a better place, one class at a time. I preferred your egg head video. Lets see if you leave my comment

[aarnetvideo]

Yes you can but someone picks up the Internet bill, AARNet has developed a federated network of RADIUS servers that can augment investments already made on campus to enable users to make use of network access across many other campuses, nationally and internationally. The video tries to show the past, present and future of eduroam if you didn't quite get that. I am not sure what you mean about the "egg head" but I have left your comment and hope my reply is sufficient.

[leighblackall]

Did you not accept my reply to this last week? I described the egg head video as your first release video about Eduroam. Could you put it back up so we can compare them, and further this discussion.. you are interested in public consultation right?

[aarnetvideo]

Hi Leigh I logged onto Youtube, no reply exists. I won't be putting the earlier versions on because these were merely works in progress for our eduroam project group to comment on. Happ to receive views on the latest final version.

[8aLynette193]

well... ok

[chJacquelyn873]

nevermind

[leighblackall]

... I created the page Wireless Mesh on the KAREN wiki, hoping to create a space in the discussion about so-called education and research connectivity being used to provide better access to a full internet, "commodity internet" included, for community groups, etc. It comes from a perspective that we should not make distinctions between "educational" use and otherwise, and that we consider the Internet more like a public library, and avoid implementing services for exclusivity.

[leighblackall]

I see. My concern is with Eduroam generally, and the earlier video featuring the 'egg heads' illustrates these concerns more clearly. They are basically around the exclusivity of the access. In the 'egg head' version, people with access where depicted being elevated from a crowd who did not have access, and being conveyed quickly to the place where apparently everyone else was also trying to get to. In NZ, I leveled similar criticism toward the implementation of KAREN... TBC