Mark O’Leary | Federated Roaming: Design Pattern and Results

Some years ago, the education sector identified an opportunity to cut the overheads associated with providing guest connectivity and thus support increased collaboration and resource sharing. The implementation of this idea ultimately became known as eduroam. Today, in the UK in a typical month we see around 1.5 million unique devices roaming to eduroam-equipped venues, facilitating around 11 million roaming-days of work by staff and students. The same technology has recently been deployed to wider public sector stakeholders in the form of govroam, with the goal of realising similar productivity gains and savings for UK PLC.