eduroam SP

Basic deployment considerations for wireless LANs

Administrative obligations of eduroam SPs

Set up of WiFi hotspots

All of the solutions presented below support the basic requirements for an eduroam SP: support for IEEE 802.1X authentications, WPA2/AES support. When deploying eduroam, deployers often want to make use of additional features such as multi-SSID support, dynamic VLAN assignment and others. Every section contains a table with a short overview of their support of such additional useful features.

Cisco (controller-based solutions)

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Cisco (stand-alone APs with IOS)

Feature

supported?

multi-SSID

yes

VLANs

yes

dynamic VLAN assignment

partial

Aruba

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Meru

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Lancom

Feature

supported?

multi-SSID

yes

VLANs

yes

dynamic VLAN assignment

yes

Apple AirPort Express

Feature

supported?

multi-SSID

no

VLANs

no

dynamic VLAN assignment

no

Set up of switches for wired eduroam

Set up of networking equipment in the network core

Set up of eduroam SP RADIUS servers