eduroam Support Organizations by the numbers
The program helps extend Wi-Fi to schools, libraries, museums, and other community spaces in participating states, enabling learning and collaboration wherever it happens.
11 States
served by eduroam Support Organizations
1,461
eduroam hotspots deployed
381
K-12 schools, libraries, museums, and other community spaces offering eduroam
175m+
total eduroam authentications last year
What?
InCommon eduroam created eduroam Support Organizations to provide new services for their constituents and offer first-level support covering all K12, library, museum, and hotspot operators (known as constituents) in the Support Organization’s state or region.
Expanding eduroam to Additional Communities
The true value of eduroam increases with its availability. Having eduroam in every primary and secondary educational institution, library, and public space boosts the value proposition of the service.
Regional networks and community anchor institutions present a unique and powerful opportunity to address this scaling challenge. At the same time, we can help increase the impact of community services, and the community that provides them. K12s as well as libraries and museums that are part of the K12 ecosystem have thus far been underserved by eduroam in the US.
eduroam support organizations leverage their existing relationships with K-12 Schools, libraries, and museums to address the needs of this community.
Simplified Business Model for eduroam Support Organizations
To better enable eduroam Support Organizations to serve these communities, this program provides a simplified business model, training and resources to build the expertise of their staff, and ongoing support.
Features
Features for the eduroam Support Organizations fall into three categories.
Simplified contracting and fee structure
Support to help you get out of the starting blocks
Ongoing resources for continued success
Want to get started today, but not ready to fully deploy? There’s an on-ramp!
Maybe the Support Organization sounds like a good fit for your community, but you only have a handful of schools interested in eduroam right now.
Maybe you need some time to lay the groundwork for a statewide deployment. If so, we have an on-ramp for you! An on-ramp Support Organization can sign the SO agreement with an on-ramp Amendment and participate in a limited way for an initial ramp period, where you can sign up to five K12 districts.
After spending a year working with your pilot schools and gearing up to take your efforts statewide, you’ll join the next Support Organization cohort.
There’s no need to sign additional agreements – you will automatically become a full Support Organization, and will be invoiced at your state’s rate. If you decide the program isn’t for you, then you can opt out and spin down your pilot schools with no further obligation.
For more information on the application process, including the planning tool for creating your application, please visit our wiki.