WBA OpenRoaming provides users with roaming access to Wi-Fi hotspots without
having to register with different operators or enter login credentials each time.
The Wi-Fi roaming
standard combines a federation of network providers and identity providers, allowing
users to join any compliant network through a federation member. Authentication is
achieved through the user‘s identity provider when the provider is a federation
member. All federation members support the WBA PKI.
WBA OpenRoaming
The WBA OpenRoaming is based on the following elements:
Hotspot 2.0
DNS Discovery
WBA OpenRoaming PKI
RADSEC
The OpenRoaming policy offers the following:
Accepts users from any ID
provider
Free roaming. The service
provider does not charge the roaming subscriber for Wi-Fi
access
QoS is the best effort
The user identity can remain
anonymous. The ID provider does not share a user's identity with the service
provider.
All members of the WBA OpenRoaming Federation, are assigned an ID code (WBAID). Both
the access network providers and the ID providers use this identification code to
facilitate roaming and to identify the companies involved. When configuring Hotspot
OpenRoaming on ExtremeCloud IQ
Controller, you are prompted to provide
your WBAID.
The WBAID format is: [<Sub
ID>:]<Operator ID>[:<Country Code>]
