[156757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: POLL: 802.1x deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carsten Bormann)
Tue Sep 25 18:38:36 2012
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
In-Reply-To: <664863.26368.1348502467243.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:37:38 +0200
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> If you regularly use one or more 802.1x protected networks, could you =
take
> a moment to reply off-list, and tell me the size of the network =
(homelab,
> smb, enterprise, carrier), and, if you know, how long 802.1x has been =
deployed
> there? =20
Surely you are joking, Mr. Ashworth.
The entirety of eduroam is on 802.1X (better known as WPA Enterprise).
That must be an 8-digit number of users.
If you need a list of sites, start with =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduroam
(but, aside from the US, it mostly lists just the countries).
When you are done drilling down, there should be about 6500 names of =
sites on the list.
If you are talking about wired .1X: It is relatively common for =
eduroam-enabled
institutions to also provide publicly accessible wired ports controlled =
by .1X
and connected to the same RADIUS servers. But I don't have any numbers =
at all.
> I'm also interested in whether any network you use has dropped .1x.
eduroam deployment started in 2003.
Your university academic computing environment would need to be pretty =
stupid to leave eduroam once it is deployed.
But stranger things have happened.
If your academic computing environment is not yet on eduroam, they still =
almost certainly use .1X for the wireless.
Not all 100+ million students worldwide have access to on-campus WiFi, =
but nowadays most do.
Gr=FC=DFe, Carsten
