Hello Nancy,

eduroam in a bus, this is exciting! 

3 things that come to my mind as far as eduroam is concerned for your design:

1) Not helpful, more of a heads up:  The connector agreement with Internet2  
asks to not connect Wi-Fi networks that you don't own/control (in this case you 
are running the APs, so it is complicated).
The main intention of that statement in the contract is to make sure that you 
can access logs in case of abuse/DMCA and that those logs are respected as far 
as privacy of users is concerned (GDPR etc…), and that locations
don’t start connecting everyone and anyone in the neighborhood or beyond.
So, when you connect infrastructure make sure that it is or it stays under your 
control and ownership.

2) If you want to remove the responsibility of connecting those 
experiments/unusual infrastructure connect them directly to us (ANYROAM). 
Anyone connecting their Wi-Fi  as SP-only (Service Provider Only, your Wi-Fi 
only) incurs no charge. The other beauty of connecting directly to us, we will 
send you usage reports about the bus independently from UFL.
This said, in your case, because so many students of UFL will be on that bus, 
it makes more sense to connect it to your own RADIUS servers for latency and 
shortest path. So much for 1) and 2) …but I had to explain the reasoning :)

3) So, if  you decide that you prefer to handle this locally, no problem, we 
can still send you independent reports! If you are interested in that feature 
(we are developing this feature right now), stamp your requests coming from the 
bus with a different operator-name. You can do this either in your Wi-Fi 
controllers or your RADIUS servers. Stamp it with 1bus.ufl.edu 
<http://1bus.ufl.edu/> (basically 1*.ufl.edu <http://ufl.edu/>). 1flu.edu 
<http://1flu.edu/> is your main Operator-Name.

This idea of stamping with a sub-realm in the Operator-name is the same for all 
eduroam operators in the US. If you want to differentiate various service 
locations in your reports, you will be able to do this in the future.
It will appear in your Bar chart as a bar with different colors withing the bar 
for each sub-Operator (so don't have too many or it will be unreadable!).

If you have cool eduroam locations that you have enabled please share with us.
(e.g. in the town of Blacksburg, VA, next to Virginia tech, a local ISP (GoGig) 
has turned eduroam on across town. We have seen a peak usage of 7800 devices in 
a day…amazing!)

Hope this helps,

Philippe

Philippe Hanset, CEO
www.anyroam.net
www.eduroam.us
+1 (865) 236-0770

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> On Aug 16, 2018, at 8:09 AM, Watson,Nancy A <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ​I am involved in a joint project with RTS to run eduroam on  the city buses 
> that pass through our campus to service the students.  We are currently a 
> Cisco Shop and I was curious if anyone has done anything like this with Cisco 
> or any other vendor.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nancy
>  Nancy Watson                                                           
>  Engineer, Network Services - UFIT                                            
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