eduroam.es project

The wireless technologies are becoming essentials in university campuses and research enveroments, not just from the telephony point of view, but also for mobile computer technologies. Apart from the internet connection, other very important aspects appear in wireless technologies, for example the mobility of users between centers and their service requirements in this mobile work enviroments.

eduroam.es is a project, coordinated from RedIRIS, that supports a common roaming enviroment between spanish research organizations. This roaming enviroment is based on a service policy and a set of techlogies that allow mobile users to get Interner connection across different organizations joinned to this project. The main goal is roaming users can have a set of services that allow them to work accesing home and local services.


Goals of eduroam.es:

  • To stablish a national roaming infrastructure for centers joinned to RedIRIS, working as a common repository of problems and solutions.
  • To develop a common service policy for roaming and alined with this policy at european level.
  • To aligne national roaming technologies and solutions with european and international ones.
  • To develop a information service infrastruture that helps roaming users to find useful information for connecting or accesing local services.
  • To spread information about roaming: manuals, standars, solutions (freeware or not), etc.
  • To promote, at national and international level, new solutions and initiatives that are being developed into RedIRIS community.