Building Funet WLAN Roaming, eduroam Finland and Wireless Tampere

This one was a short presentation of the RADIUS based roaming research and project started or based on the research originally done in the department of communications engineering at Tampere University of Technology. It also contains a short introduction to what direction RADIUS based WiFi roaming architectures might develop in the future.

Here is the presentation at Slideshare:

Building roaming-in-finland

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Nokia announces an open smart home platform

Nokia announced an open smart home platform yesterday. What makes this move interesting to me is not so much the home automation stuff (although that is also interesting development), but the fact that the platform is basically an open Linux-based WiFi (801.11n) router platform.

If Nokia manages to keep this platform as open as the Maemo platform, it enables developers and third parties to participate very efficiently into innovating new services for home environment.

I also find the business aspects and opportunities of this move interesting. Although Nokia does not mention it anywhere, this kind of home gateway devices would extend the Nokia's possible service platforms straight to homes of the consumers and since the device already has WiFi capability, could this also be a move in the future to offload mobile Internet traffic to broadband connections instead of cellular networks? This remains to be seen, but it is interesting anyway.

Presentation today (21st of May) in TERENA 2008 Networking Conference

As a part of my PhD studies and community networks related research I keep a presentation at Terena 2008 Networking Conference in 7B - Who is there? - eduroam session. The session is streamed to the network at 17:00-18:30 Finnish time (UTC+3) and can be watched in real time here. The topic of my presentation is: Utilising eduroam in building wireless community networks. The presentation will be archived and will be available also later in case you absolutely do not want to miss it. :)