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JRS Hot News - September 2010

Canterbury College announces operational eduroam services - the college now offers a Home and Visited service, so both staff and students, and visitors to the college can benefit from eduroam.

August News

The Moredun Research Institute in Penicuik, Scotland has joined JRS - we welcome the Institute and hope it will soon be offering eduroam. The total number of participating organisations is now 124.

There is now an operational eduroam service at University of Hull, Scarborough Campus. This means there are now 80 organisations providing live services in the UK.

The University of London has an operational Home and Visited eduroam service - staff and students at the University can now benefit from eduroam when visiting other eduroam sites and visitors to Univ of London can connect via the eduroam service.

OpenSEA announces the latest development release of XSupplicant 2.2.1 - there are a lot of new features and enhancements in this version, released today 17/08/10. Among the the more interesting enhancments are the inclusion of support for Windows Vista and 7 (x86 for now, an x64 version will be out soon). This also includes support for IETF's Network Endpoint Assessment (NEA) standard. The purpose of this development release is to get feedback on bugs so that OpenSEA can work toward a new stable release with all of the new features. So please be sure to file bugs on sourceforge.net if you find any. http://open1x.sourceforge.net The stable release v 2.2.0 for Windows XP and linux is also available at this site.

Ravensbourne joins JRS - another new joiner; welcome to Ravensbourne. The total number of registered organisations is now 123.

University of Hull announces operational visited service - Hull joins the growing list of organisations offering visited eduroam services in the UK. Visitors to and staff/students at the university can now make use of eduroam.

University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and University of Leicester join JRS - we are pleased to welcome these two universities to JRS. The total number of registered organisations is now 122.

July News

Birmingham City University and University of Surry join JRS - we are pleased to welcome these two universities to JRS. The total number of registered organisations is now 120.

University of East Anglia announces full operational eduroam service - visitors to and staff/students at the university can now make use of eduroam. There are now 78 organisations in the UK offering operational eduroam services.

Advisory - broadcast of eduroam SSID at non-operational sites - with the aim of eliminating the dissatisfaction of users who see an eduroam SSID at sites where JRS is in the process of being implemented, but where an operational service is not yet working, the widespread broadcast of 'eduroam' will be restricted; with effect from January. Full details of announcement.

New promotional material available - the promo material web page has been substantially updated and now includes an amusing animated video explaining what eduroam is to new users. This should be popular with Freshers this Autumn. You'll also find a range of ideas for promoting eduroam to your users throughout the campus; drinks coaster, stickers, help cards and more.

Previously Published JRS News (follow this link to the archive)

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Key Facts about JRS

• The JANET Roaming service provides eduroam in the UK(*) which is a federated service that enables JANET connected organisations to offer high quality secure network services for visitors from other eduroam-enabled organisations - without the need for guest account management, saving IT Support workload.
  (* There are now 123 registered UK organisations Where you can use eduroam).

• Authenticated logon services can be provided over Wi-Fi, wired connection and from designated guest workstations - giving full access over JANET to other JANET-connected organisations and the Internet.

• Access to the national JRS infrastructure and the JANET JRS support service is free of charge allowing the service to be offered to guests free of charge. Participating organisations must implement RADIUS but in many cases organisations which already have 802.1X infrastructure can provide a service at nil additional expense, otherwise the only cost is for a RADIUS server and integration.

• Users log on at ANY full-service eduroam network using own username and password, the same as on their home network, for all sites they visit – without having to refer to the IT department of the visited site.

• Organistations may offer eduroam as a 'Home' and/or 'Visited' service. With a Home service, users can gain authentication at other eduroam sites they might visit (ie the Home site acts as an identity provider). Visited service sites provide an eduroam guest network that supports users visiting from organisations that provide a Home service. The idea of such a flexible approach is to be as inclusive as possible and to allow organisations to implement the type of service that suits their policies and local infrastructure/technical expertise.

• All eduroam-connected users (visitors or local users) experience securely authenticated straightforward access to full JANET network services - giving access to the Internet, home organisation networks via VPN, web mail etc., and permitted resources on the local eduroam network.

• The JANET service forms part of the eduroam federation which includes participants in many other countries – extending usability of the service throughout Europe(zoomable map) and around the world.

Why implement JANET Roaming - is it for my organisation?

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