HW090: Inside eduroam

This episode highlights how eduroam has become a critical global Wi-Fi roaming utility for research and education, with implications for scale, user experience, and operational resilience across campuses and partner institutions. For CIOs and IT leaders, the strategic takeaway is that shared infrastructure and standards-based identity/access models can reduce friction for users while improving consistency and simplifying cross-organization connectivity, but they require deliberate modernization, load balancing, and governance to stay reliable at scale. The discussion underscores that campus networking teams must treat Wi-Fi as a mission-critical platform with the same rigor as core enterprise services.