I appreciate it! Respectfully,
Michael N. Butler Network Engineer Office - IT 113C Phone - 410-677-5355 Salisbury University From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Stephen Belcher Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam Go-Live Verbiage/Notification to Customers This was our initial announcement: WVU joins eduroam; global Wi-Fi service helps educators, researchers West Virginia University is now offering eduroam, a secure and worldwide roaming access service that lets educators, researchers and others in higher education instantly log on to Wi-Fi at participating schools. The service went live Monday and is now available in all University-owned buildings except residence halls. Tim Williams, director of telecommunications and networking for Information Technology, said eduroam was requested by faculty members and will benefit those who travel to other universities to collaborate. Eduroam lets students, researchers and staff from the participating institutions connect to the Internet simply by powering up their devices and looking for active networks. Select "eduroam" and enter the email address that incorporates your MyID user name. Visitors to the Morgantown, WVU Tech and Potomac State campuses can enter their credentials from their home institutions and likewise have immediate access. Williams said the partner schools provide authentication of those credentials. That means visiting instructors and researchers no longer need to seek a sponsor and obtain a temporary MyID credential from WVU. Dean of Libraries Jon Cawthorne discovered eduroam on a trip to London in February. "The minute you open up your laptop, it recognizes who you are, and it gives you access to the networks. Your hosts don't have to go scrounge around for guest access and passwords," Cawthorne said. A week after that trip, he went to Washington, D.C., and watched as a colleague from Iowa used eduroam. "All of us were fumbling around trying to get guest access and passwords. It's just so convenient in so many ways," he said. "It's usually all these steps to get connected, and eduroam just takes those steps away. It is great." Chief Information Officer John Campbell said the eduroam service aligns with several of the University's strategic goals, including the promotion of international partnerships in education and the encouragement of interdisciplinary activity in research, scholarship and creativity. For the University to excel in research and innovation, Campbell said, it must also have an underlying IT infrastructure that is robust, resilient and ever-improving. Here's how eduroam works: https://www.eduroam.us/ Nearly 150 institutions in the United States and more than 5,500 worldwide are already using eduroam. Dozens more in the U.S. are either testing or considering the service. To see the list, visit: https://www.eduroam.us/eduroam_us_institutions. For more information, visit https://www.eduroam.org/. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 2:37 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam Go-Live Verbiage/Notification to Customers This was the announcement made back in 2014. We switched to eduroam being the primary SSID in 2015. I didn't check all the links as this is really old (some may not work). https://its.unc.edu/project/eduroam-wi-fi-service-travelling-scholars/ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Michael Butler Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 1:54 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam Go-Live Verbiage/Notification to Customers Hello, I would like to see if anyone here has added Eduroam into production in their current wireless environment. If so could you please share the verbiage used to communicate to the campus community about this implementation? We are going live and just want to see if anyone has a template we can go off of. Thanks! Respectfully, Michael N. Butler Network Engineer Office - IT 113C Phone - 410-677-5355 Salisbury University ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. 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