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What is eduroam?
Education Education Roaming is the abbreviation of education roaming, which is translated as "educational roaming" in China. Is a global network designed for students and other members of academic groups, so that members of participating institutions can safely participate in the network when visiting other institutions with Internet connection.

Education Roaming is a secure global cross-domain wireless roaming authentication service specially developed for scientific research and education institutions, which has covered more than 6,000 scientific research and education institutions in more than 70 countries and regions around the world.

Eduroam CN China Top Node was introduced into China on 20 14 and put into operation. The computer network information center is responsible for its operation and management. Computer network information center and Peking University Institute of High Energy Physics are the first companies to join and operate the eduroam CN Alliance.

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Advantages and characteristics:

The authentication is simple, and the account of the original organization is used for authentication, thus avoiding the trouble of complicated account passwords and frequent authentication, and there is no need for access organizations to provide temporary accounts; Automatic connection can realize one-time wireless authentication, and when the network is in range, automatic connection does not need to be authenticated again; Access security, through WPA2-AES security encryption, to achieve advanced security of wireless terminal access.

Account security, using 802. 1x EAP protocol to connect RADIUS to complete authentication, to better ensure account security; International roaming, covering academic wireless network roaming in more than 80 countries and regions around the world, can access the wireless signals with EDROAM SSID in the member institutions of EDROAM Alliance.

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