eduroam in Asia Pacific

APAN eduroam is a subgroup within the APAN Middleware working group that has been established to encourage development, deployment and use of secure wireless roaming access across research and education campuses in the ASIA PACIFIC region.  An informal group meet monthly via video conference from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, with observers from the USA and EU.

Countries connected to eduroam in the Asia Pacific region

• AU - AARNet (Australia) - hosts APAN regional eduroam server
• CN - UESTC (China)
• HK - Hong Kong Polytechnic (Hong Kong) - hosts APAN regional eduroam server
• JP - NII (Japan)
• NZ - New Zealand
• TW - TWAREN (Taiwan)

News

• Eduroam gains ground in Asia - Terena - 31 August 2006
• Eduroam turns academics into guests - Wifi Planet - 11 May 2005
• Eduroam goes global - Terena - 15 December 2004

The APAN Region has two regional RADIUS servers, one in Australia, the other in Hong Kong for resilience. Both servers dual connect to Europe and USA eduroam federation.

Mailing Lists

• Closed eduroam global working group list