Eduroam (EDUcation ROAMing) is the roaming infrastructure used by the international research and education community that provides the eduroam user experience: open your laptop and be online.

Being part of eduroam allows users to access a wireless network at a visited institution (also connected to eduroam) simply using the same credentials (for instance, username and password) the users would use if they were at their home institution. Current list of participants in Turkey can be found on ULAKBİM‘s web site.

The persons who have still been working in an institute or a university all over the world that is connected to the eduroam global network can use local eduroam connection by using their credientals, their user name and password, associated to them in their instituation. They have no need to do anything except configuring eduroam connection as indicated in the documentation which is accessible via eduroam main page.

When a user tries to connec to eduroam, there appears a login window in which user can enter user-name and password information. After then, the entered information ( data ) is sent IYTE User Authentication Server ( RADIUS ). Radius server checks user domain. If user is a IYTE user, it checks the entered information with the one in local database and gives authentication if the data matches. Otherwise, it fails. If user domain is not a IYTE domain then it proxies the data to the ULAKBIM Authentication Server ( Federation RADIUS ). If the user domain is listed in its database then the request is sent to that Institute RADIUS server. Otherwise, it is sent Confederation RADIUS server which is loacted either in Europe region or in Asia-Pasific region. This procedure continues till finding the correct institute that user belongs to.

Yes, absolutely. During eduroam connection there happens two stage of encryption. The first one is made while user communicates to access point device with the method of WPA2-Enterprise/AES. The second one which is EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPV2 is used to transmit user data to the RADIUS server. These methods are offen used and accepted one of the best encryption methods that can be used for wirless communication.