Wi-Fi is pretty set-it-and-forget it. When you register your device on eduroam at UNC, you can count on connecting to one of UNC’s 12,000 access points all over campus. But did you know eduroam isn’t just a Carolina network? It’s … Read more

Silence Outlook and Teams If you’re a student going on summer break or an employee taking a vacation, you’ll probably want to unplug from email and chat. It’s tempting to use the nuclear option and delete Outlook and Teams from … Read more

You probably already know that UNC-Chapel Hill’s primary Wi-Fi network is eduroam, but how much do you know about eduroam or the other two Wi-Fi networks at UNC? 1. How do you pronounce eduroam? Say the “edu” like “education.” That’s … Read more

ITS Communication Technologies and UNC Health are improving institutional mobility. CommTech has brought UNC Health’s Skynet wireless network to virtually all of the UNC School of Medicine. UNC Health, meanwhile, has deployed UNC-Chapel Hill’s eduroam network to most spaces within … Read more

What happens when two UNC universities with shared resources decide to both implement eduroam–and confuse your wireless configuration while they’re at it? In this case, staff of UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services and at UNC-Asheville worked together to implement a … Read more

In a guest post for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Jim Gogan, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Communication Technologies at Information Technology Services, explains how UNC-Chapel Hill’s new primary wireless connection eduroam can ensure the most secure transmission of both your … Read more

The University’s eduroam wireless connection should reach a milestone this week. A month ago UNC-Secure users outnumbered eduroam users two to one. As of last week, it was a 50-50 split, even as the overall number of wireless users jumped … Read more

The beta enrollment model for eduroam migrates to the production enrollment model for the entire campus on Monday, August 3, starting at 5:30 p.m. and finishing by 8 p.m., at the latest. Following this migration, you will configure a system … Read more

Information Technology Services is phasing out UNC-Chapel Hill’s UNC-Secure wireless network and moving the more than 50,000 devices that use that wireless connection over to “eduroam,” a secure and encrypted wireless network shared by universities around the world. Thousands of … Read more