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The JANET Roaming Service entered the pilot phase on January 19th and will be open to organisations wishing to apply to join the 36 trail participants from 2nd April 2006. Currently the LIN trial participants are being migrated to the new service hardware. Full service launch date is 2nd May at which time the service will become subject to the JANET SLA and new participants will be able to join.

The JRS Policy document and the JRS Technical Specification have just been published and can be found at Documentation.

The Need

• Visitors to JANET sites want authenticated, secure AND easy access to full network connection for their laptops - home networks, Internet and permitted areas of host network

• JANET sites want to provide visitor access logon without IT Support workload

The Solution

• JANET Roaming

Demand for visitor network access at JANET connected organisations has grown in recent years and will continue to do so. This is adding to the administrative burden faced by local IT staff in setting up guest accounts and is causing inconvenience for visitors. The need has therefore arisen for an infrastructure to reduce this burden and to provide hassle free guest access for visitors. The JANET Roaming Service provides just such a solution and will in turn promote effective collaboration on research and academic projects.

JRS has developed from Location Independent Networking (LIN), which facilitates authenticated independent guest network access at JANET connected organisations and as part of the eduroam federation (www.eduroam.org), at institutions across Europe, Australia and Taiwan.

The service is free at the point of use. To participate, organisations have to provide and set up a RADIUS server which, by referencing the JRS National RADIUS Proxy Server network, permits guest users to be authenticated using their own home network unique credentials. This will provide the guest user with network access from the visited organisation and (depending upon home network remote access systems) access to the home network. All this is achieved without any administrative burden or added complexities for either the guest user or the local host network IT staff, once the system has been implemented.

UK organisations currently participating in the extended trial:

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

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For further information see:

Network Development Location Independent Networking

To find out more or to request to join JANET Roaming see:

www.ja.net/services/network-services/roaming

Edward Wincott

Applied Network Services

e.wincott@ja.net

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