eduroam roaming Education (Education Trail) is the abbreviation of the word. 802.1x security using a RADIUS-based infrastructure via standard, users of eduroam member institutions aims to seamlessly network usage in other educational institutions.

eduroam member institutions of the users in their institution (home institution) pairs with username and password they use to connect to the network, eduroam member of another organization (Guest Authority) connected to the network. When the user receives guests to send a connection request broadcast while eduroam institutions, the authorization server host institution, it directs users to the authorization server of your own home institution determines whether authorized or not. All these queries are made through a secure tunnel created between servers, prevents the user from their home server to be seen except the username password pair. In this case, the only thing the user needs to do, where guests institutions participating in the eduroam wireless network is connected to the network, such as identification of their institutions.

eduroam federation has a hierarchy. Currently, there are two confederations: the European eduroam confederation and the Asia-Pacific (APAN) eduroam confederation. eduroam member institutions to the eduroam federation located in their own country, the country of the federation are sending queries to the associations they are affiliated. Turkey is attached to the European eduroam confederation and federation joined the AP that each new confederation and each new institutions participating in them can be recognized by everyone involved with this hierarchy. To see participants cited in the Confederation please visit eduroam page

Eduroam in the world