AARNet members and their collaborators

Despite the difficulties and frustrations there have been a number of recent examples of success at smoothing the problems of access to health campuses. These include the release of Eduroam on the Mater Hospital precinct in Queensland as the first stage of a wider deployment across the state health jurisdiction in Queensland, the system wide medical student access provided by the Hunter-New England Health Region in NSW and the positive and active discussions between the Victorian Health Department and the Parkville Health Clinical, Research and Education precinct organising body in Melbourne.

Eduroam deployments to service students and staff located on health campuses are increasing quite quickly.  Notwithstanding that the system wide approach taken by members of the QRNO has been successful in demonstrating the benefits of tackling connectivity issues in a collaborative there have also been many examples of Eduroam deployments by individual member universities most notably in South Australia and in Tasmania.

One of the significant elements of the deployment of Eduroam on Queensland Health campuses has been its deployment on the health campus’s own wireless infrastructure rather than through the creation of separate research and education sector infrastructure. This approach is now under consideration by at least one other health jurisdiction across the country

Further information on the Queensland initiative can be obtained through the Executive Officer of the QRNO (executive.officer@questnet.net.au)