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.  

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 - NZ sites are hosted by AARNet in Australia
• Papua New Guinea - PNG sites (Divine Word University) are hosted by AARNet in Australia
  
• TW - TWAREN (Taiwan)

News

• Australia connects Papua New Guinea to the global eduroam federation - AARNet - 1 Feb 2010
  
• 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.