The goal of this thesis was to create and deploy an eduroam network into the existing Aruba Instant environment at the Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK) campus. There was no previous guest network on the campus.

Eduroam is a network based on RADIUS servers, where the user can use one organization’s credentials at other organizations using eduroam, to authenticate into the network. It is based on a hierarchy of RADIUS servers, where the authentication request can be relayed to the correct organization, allowing the user to be authenticated. Eduroam is based on authentication defined in IEEE’s 802.1X standard.

Aruba Instant is a network technology from Aruba Networks, where a single Wi-Fi access point takes the role of a traditional network controller. This works well especially for smaller networks, and the maximum size is limited to 128 access points.

In the practical part of this thesis, a test environment was set up in the datacenter laboratory of KAMK. Based on that implementation, it was then deployed into the production network at the campus, which is managed by the client of this thesis, KamIT. A RADIUS server and the necessary network rules and user databases were set up in the test environment.

As a result, a working eduroam network environment was set up on the campus, the use of which started in autumn 2018. This enables guests who have credentials in other eduroam organizations to directly connect to the campus network. The network is also available to students and employees of the campus.