"We try to strike a balance between usability, flexibility, and reliability, security, and stability," Osterberg added.
According to Steen Harvard's roaming technology will help off-campus undergraduates and graduate students who now must use dial-up technology. Instead, they can bring their laptops to Harvard libraries or study spaces.
"Roaming ethernet is definitely coming," Osterberg said. "We know it's been a long wait, and that there have been several delays along the way, but we're very excited about it, and hope that our user population finds it to be as valuable a service as hope it will be."
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