The document summarizes a seminar about eduroam(UK), a service that allows students and staff to access wireless networks when traveling. It discusses the steady growth in membership numbers, issues with the previous platform struggling with load, solutions implemented to improve performance, and plans for continued expansion and improvements to further enhance the user experience.

1. Tuesday morning eduroam Seminar
Edward Wincott

2. Steady growth in eduroam(UK) membership
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3. Steady membership growth with widening inclusivity
Name Sector Joining month Running total
Nescot College FE Dec-15 365
CornwallCollege FE Dec-15 366
Plymouth Marine Laboratory Research Dec-15 367
Universities UK HE Dec-15 368
The British Library Other Dec-15 369
Jewel and Esk (has now merged with Edinburgh College) FE Dec-15 368
University of Exeter Students'Guild HE Jan-16 369
ImperialCollege Healthcare NHSTrust NHS Jan-16 370
TheCollege of Haringey, Enfield and North East London FE Jan-16 371
NewCollege Nottingham FE Jan-16 372
Weston College FE Feb-16 373
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea LocalAuthority Feb-16 374
West NottinghamCollege FE Feb-16 375
ECMWF Research Feb-16 376
University of Gibraltar Other Feb-16 377
TheChurch of England HE Feb-16 378
Bournville College FE Feb-16 379
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4. Steady increase in numbers of operational members
Name Sector Go-live onth Running total
Heythrop College UoL HE Sept-15 262
Aberystwyth Town Council LocalAuthority Sept-15 263
Southern Regional College FE Sept-15 264
The College of Richard Collyer FE Oct-15 265
The Mary Ward Settlement FE Oct-15 266
City of Glasgow College FE Oct-15 267
Cambridge Education Group HE Nov-15 268
Luton Sixth Form College FE Nov-15 269
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance HE Nov-15 270
Telford College of Arts and Technology FE Nov-15 271
Mullard Space Science Laboratory Research Nov-15 272
Epping Forest College FE Nov-15 273
Nescot College FE Dec-15 274
South and City College Birmingham FE Dec-15 275
LoughboroughCollege FE Dec-15 276
CornwallCollege FE Dec-15 277
The Francis Crick Institute Research Dec-15 278
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5. eduroam(UK) Support workload
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6. eduroam Availability in Europe – most ‘Eurovision’ territories
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https://www.eduroam.org/index.php?p=europe&s=monitoring

7. eduroam Worldwide – now available in 76 territories
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https://monitor.eduroam.org/map_service_data.php

8. eduroam Europe –Visitors to countries last week
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https://monitor.eduroam.org/f_ticks_map_utt.php?gtype=google&obid=accept&country=allmenu

9. Growth in AuthTraffic through NRPS - Access-Accept
Events
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10. Growth in AuthTraffic Seen by NRPS – Unique CSI
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11. Roaming 2 Struggling under load
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12. Solution – New Roaming 2 platform and RedHat OS
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13. Performance Gain when Ro and R1 switched to Redhat
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14. Some issues still at member sites – no CSI
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15. Some issues still with users – wrong credentials
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16. eduroam(UK) activities
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»Replacement of Roaming2
»Replacement of Support server – new platform new features
»Proactive contact with members to address issues
»Development + deployment of Service Provider AssuranceTool
(your helpful compliance probe)
»Revision ofTechnical Specification

17. Technical Specification updates for 1.4
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»Accounting packets not to be sent to NRPS
»TLS/SSL interception proxies/filtering not permitted, clarification
on content filtering
»Contacts responsiveness requirement update
»Review of ports and protocols
»References toWPA andTKIP removed
»Recommendation to create NAPTR records in DNS
»IPv6 and ICMPv6 clarifications

18. Future – evolution not revolution
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» Improving the user experience – education, on-boarding
» Improving level of service provision at member sites
» Continuing growth in FE membership
» Continued broadening of membership (NHS and local authorities)
» Continued expansion of footprint at established members, libraries,
museums, metropolitan areas, transport hubs/mobile services
» Continued international expansion
» Possible emergence of managed services
» RadSecTLS overTCP

19. Welcome
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eduroam(UK)
EdwardWincott
eduroam(UK) Service Manager
edward.wincott@jisc.ac.uk
www.jisc.ac.uk/eduroam
Twitter @eduroamuk
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