eduroam wireless roaming service is now available at 24 Canadian higher education campuses for easy, single sign-on Internet access
Vancouver, May , 2010 - BCNET, B.C.'s advanced network for higher education and research, and the Canadian Access Federation lead the way in Canada by providing connectivity for 24 Canadian campuses to join a secure, world-wide roaming access service called eduroam (educational roaming). eduroam was developed for use by the international higher education community and is currently available in Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
The service provides single sign-on, access to campus wireless networks for eduroam enabled students, faculty and staff when visiting any Canadian, European or Asia Pacific higher education campus that are connected to the service. It allows a user to log on to the Internet at a participating campus simply by using their home institution credentials.
Together with the Canadian Access Federation, BCNET and its member institutions are the first in Canada to create eduroam links for wireless reciprocity between higher education institutions. eduroam and other access management services are provided through the Canadian Access Federation, a jointly managed initiative of CANARIE and the Canadian University Council of CIO’s (CUCCIO-CDPIUC).
In 2010, BCNET enabled an additional four Canadian universities with access to eduroam: McMaster University, University of Toronto, Memorial University and Royal Roads University.
eduroam enabled Canadian higher education institutions:
British Columbia
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Great Northern Way Campus
Okanagan College
Royal Roads University
Simon Fraser University
Thompson Rivers University
University of British Columbia
University of Victoria
Alberta
Mount Royal University
University of Alberta
University of Calgary
Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan
Ontario
Carlton University
McMaster University
Queen's University
Ryerson University
University of Guelph
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
Quebec
McGill University
Université de Montréal
New Brunswick
University of New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Memorial University
Users can set up eduroam wireless access by contacting the IT department of their home institution.
For more information about eduroam visit the eduroam website.
For more information, please contact:
Tamara Klein
Communications Manager
BCNET
(778) 782-7865
Tamara.Klein@bc.net
About BCNET:
BCNET develops and manages an ultra high-speed fibre optic network that is 10,000 times faster than the commercial Internet and facilitates leading-edge research, science and education across the British Columbia and around the world. Over 11 universities and institutes and 19 research organizations use the BCNET network.
BCNET is a not-for-profit organization collectively funded by its members as well as the federal and provincial government.
For more information, please visit our website at www.bc.net