CANARIE - Canadian Access Federation

eduroam or education roaming, provides roaming wireless network access for students, staff and faculty at partner institutions. Users are able to authenticate using the same credentials as they would at their home institution or office. Staff members at CANARIE, therefore, can use their CANARIE user ID to gain access to the eduroam service at affiliated institutions. Likewise, other institution members can access the CANARIE eduroam service using their usual credentials.

When logging into eduroam users must attach a realm name in order to identify their home institution. CANARIE users would append @canarie.ca to their CANARIE user ID when logging into any eduroam service. For example enter johndoe@canarie.ca if johndoe was the CANARIE user ID. Realm identifiers must always be included when using eduroam.

• eduroam – Supporting access to secure wireless networking on campuses across Canada and the world
• Students, educators and researchers are mobile, using wireless connectivity as they travel to other institutions.  Normally this required the visitor to obtain a special temporary authentication credential. Additional effort was required by the visitor and the visited institution to maintain these extra credentials.
• When both the visitor's and the visited institutions participate in eduroam, the visitor is automatically permitted access to the wireless networks of the visited institutions by using their home-organization credentials.
• eduroam (education/roaming) is an international standard developed in Europe and now deployed in many countries around the world. www.eduroam.org