Web Seminar: October 27 - Eduroam in the US

["Young, Beth A." <youngba () MORE NET>]

Please join REN-ISAC in this web seminar about Eduroam in the US.  

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011
Time:  Noon Eastern
Topic:  Eduroam in the US
Speaker:  Philippe Hanset
URL: http://breeze.iu.edu/eduroam
Room passcode:  tbeduroam

Description:
Providing visitor access to academic wireless networks can be a daunting task. Very few solutions present a good mix 
between security and convenience, and can also be time consuming for users and support staff.
If an institution has or plan to have an 802.1x infrastructure, adding eduroam to it will provide many benefits 
including instant access, encryption, and mutual authentication for visitors from other institutions. Reciprocally 
these benefits will be available to the members of the institution when traveling in the country or abroad. eduroam has 
more than 2000 institutions worlwide. In the US, we had two members in 2009, twelve in 2010, and more than fifty now!

Speaker:
After a career in mathematical and theoretical biology, Hanset progressively shifted is interest to computer networks. 
In 2001, Hanset designed and implemented for University of Tennessee the largest Wi-Fi network in academia. An 
important part of designing Wireless Networks resided in the access control mechanisms which led Hanset to explore 
authentication and authorization systems like eduroam. He has been experimenting and spearheading the eduroam effort in 
the US since 2005. Hanset is Constituent Group leader for Wireless-LAN@Educause, and member of the Customer Advisory 
Board of Aruba Networks. Hanset holds a master in Zoology from "Université Libre de Bruxelles" and a master in Computer 
Science from University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Beth