We have not even had it rolled out a full week and here is what I have
seen. May not be exact, but is pretty suprising.
238 unique users from 106 unique domains.
This is the breakout of country codes
1 ie
1 nz
2 at
2 dk
2 it
2 pt
3 fi
4 es
4 fr
5 au
5 cz
5 hk
5 se
6 za
12 nl
14 ch
19 ca
37 uk
46 de
64 edu
I also had 30 unique users from my campus use it somewhere else.
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Walter Reynolds
Principal Systems Security Development Engineer
Information and Technology Services
University of Michigan
(734) 615-9438
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good stuff- I hope we get some users after rolling it out. I did poll
> our distributed support folks, and as of yet can’t find any hidden demand.
> At the same time, we don’t know what we don’t know, ya know?****
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> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Hanset, Philippe C
> *Sent:* Friday, November 01, 2013 1:31 PM
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> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam rollout- one more time****
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> Lee, ****
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> To answer 2 and 3, I have seen many schools that were amazed at how many
> eduroam users they had from all over the world and in many locations****
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> (visiting scientists in labs, students from abroad in greenhouses!,...you
> name it) ****
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> Here is a graph from University of Chicago (yes, they are known for having
> a big International presence...but that was just in the first 3 months,***
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> and it was back in 2010!!!)****
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> On Nov 1, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]> wrote:****
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> I know this comes up frequently, so forgive me. We’re at a different place
> than we were at last inquiry…****
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> Syracuse University has become an Eduroam school, and as we speak we have
> happy Eduroamers around the world. Woo Woo!****
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> At the same time, we have yet to roll out Eduroam on our own campus and
> are getting ready to in accordance to the Eduroam agreement. We’re trying
> to figure out the best model:****
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> **1. **Retire our own beloved 802.1x SSID, and use Eduroam in its
> place. This has no favor with any of us, including our senior IT managers
> and so is not gonna happen. (Though I value the opinions of others, not
> wanting to get into a debate on this point J )****
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> **2. **Do a targeted rollout of Eduroam, in places where it is
> likely to be used by visitors- academic buildings, etc. (So far, I can’t
> find evidence of anyone coming to SU and asking for it). This model
> requires building a new WLAN group or two and pushing it out to probably
> 20ish buildings out of our 200+ buildings.****
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> **3. **Go the easy path, and push it the Eduroam SSID everywhere,
> as an additional WLAN, and live with the fact that it won’t get a lot of
> use in most places and puts management traffic in the air that isn’t
> generally going to be used.****
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> I can’t be the only one who has stood at this juncture and looked at the
> situation the same way. Wondering what others have done between #2 and #3,
> and what your level of satisfaction has been for whatever path you took.**
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> Syracuse University****
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