Stay Connected in Digital Spaces with OpenRoaming

Our mobile devices are like a second brain, remembering, reminding, and informing us throughout our daily tasks. It would be great for productivity if your “other mind” could stay continuously connected from the time you got up at home or hotel on Wi-Fi, travelled to work on cellular, and instantly connect to the local Wi-Fi as you travel deeper into office buildings, malls, and airports. No more dropping calls or message streams as the device attempts to reconnect to different Wi-Fi access points from heterogeneous access providers. As we grow ever-more dependent on our devices to work, communicate, and innovate, continuous connectivity to internet resources and business applications anytime, anywhere is the baseline expectation.

That’s why Cisco is collaborating with a federation of wireless access providers, identity platforms, and enterprises to create OpenRoaming, with the goal to provide continuous secure wireless connectivity as consistently as possible across diverse networks. Instead of frustrating device owners with multiple captive portals for selecting and logging into separate networks, devices can install one or more identity credentials that will securely and automatically permit onboarding to participating wireless networks. 

What’s going on behind the scenes to make this convenience possible? Let’s examine the technology and partnerships that are making OpenRoaming in digital spaces possible today. 

Read about the integration of OpenRoaming with Cisco DNA Spaces in my latest Cisco blog post.