eduroam is the well known and widely used, worldwide high-performance wifi access service from GÉANT. Eduroam profiles for a large variety of end user devices are now also available on the eduroam.ch portal.
Today, on 1st December 2019, the eduroam.ch service enters its pilot phase. Within the four months to come, SWITCH will find out whether this enduser-friendly service actually responds to a need of the Universities or not. eduroam.ch uses your SWITCH edu-ID for authentication, and lets you download a profile for each of your devices in a user-friendly way. These profiles are somewhat special in that they solve a typical BYOD problem. Today’s profiles obtained by eduroam.ch won’t connect you to inner V-LANs, but only to a generic or “guest” V-LAN, as on any other Campus.
Two Universities joined the pilot already right at the beginning. Others, as well as further organisations like e.g. Alumni associations, may join during the whole pilot phase until 31. March 2020. Participation in the pilot is free, and Universities can use this service in parallel to their specific existing eduroam profiles and infrastructure.
Organisation wanting to join, contact us at eduroam-support@switch.ch. The same contact point answers also all further questions you may have about the service.