OMREN Federation
OMREN Federation provides an easy and secure access to online resources and services for research and higher education community in the Sultanate of Oman. This OMREN managed Federation has successfully joined eduGAIN, the GEANT inter-federation service that connects many research and education identity federations worldwide. eduGAIN simplifies accessing to content, services and resources for the global research and education community.
OMREN Federation purposes
OMREN Federation offers the facilitation of the authentication in on-premise as well as cloud applications. It enables trusted collaboration within the national and international research and education community. It allows an easy and secure access to the local or international services through eduGAIN confederation. OMREN Federation, increases the privacy protection with fewer data spills and ensures lower administration costs and effort.
Who can benefit from OMREN service?
Our membership is extended to all higher education organizations and research centers that are connected to OMREN network. Each institution can apply, at any time, for membership as Identity Provider to manage the authentication of end users and their digital identities data and avail access to all services directly provided by OMREN or its partners. Moreover, other organization may opt for the service to act as Service Provider of resources and services to OMREN community through OMREN federation.
About OMREN
Oman Research and Education Network (OMREN) is an Initiative by the Research Council (TRC) to establish a national network for Oman. OMREN aims to partner with Research & Education Sector through providing world class e-infrastructure to their practical needs. OMREN works with a mission to enable innovation, research, education, strategic and International e-collaboration for the research and education community of the Sultanate of Oman.