Re: Wireless Guest Access

[Christopher Misra <cmisra () NIC UMASS EDU>]

> > Our main goal is to allow visiting faculty, staff, prospective students, and >
> parents to have a way to use their mobile device to check email via their >
> yahoo account, web portal, etc...
>
> We've had a guest wireless access plan in place for about a year now. The
> guests have to be "sponsored" by a University dept. The sponsor controls when
> they have access to the net (day, time of day). We don't restrict where they
> go once they connect. They do have to login to connect to the net so we have
> an audit trail.

We have a similar process to VT consistent with our policies. We have
the concept of sponsorship of guest credentials. Currently this is a
partially automated process. We are actively developing an interface to
make the it a more automated process. Our intent is to have a web-based
interface for creation of these guest credentials for wireless access. A
sponsor will login, create the credentials, and issue them to the guest.

> Basically, the guest registers the request online, the dept. sponsor reviews
> and approves the request, the guest uses the net during the allowed times.