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Around the world there are currently more than 48 community. Publishers (SP) offer their services to users
federations participating in or in the process of joining in different federations, though they can crease their

eduGAIN, with approximately 1,500 identity providers target market and users also get seamless benefit from
and 500 service providers. Inter-federation facility the wide range of service providers. Federation and
enabled institutions to access the services and resources members can get the following benefits:
for the global research and research and education

Federations • Maximum services for your institutions – enables them to access services from
different federations.

• Lower administration costs
• Saves time - no need to make bilateral agreements with other federations.

• Trustworthy - secure collaboration and exchange of information.

Service providers • More users and more business

• Minimal cost and support is needed to maintain user identities

Identity providers • Ashome federation is interconnected with other federations, hence wide range of
services to your users
• Less administrative work.

User Community (students, • Wider range of services than are available nationally or locally.
researchers, network
and proxy administrators)

4.2 An overview of Other Country federation and IdP Details

Inter-federation Status of Federations IdP's(*)

Federation URL No. of IdP
United Kingdom - UK federation http://ukfederation.org.uk/ 734

U.S. - InCommon https://incommon.org 450
France - Fédération Éducation-Recherche https://services.renater.fr/federation/en/index 291
Brazil -café https://www.rnp.br/en/services/cafe.html 194

The Netherlands - SURFconext http://www.surfconext.nl/ 108
Czech Republic - eduID.cz http://www.eduid.cz/wiki/en/ 80

Italy - IDEM https://www.idem.garr.it/index.php/en 77
Germany - DFN AAI https://www.aai.dfn.de/ 75
Denmark - WAYF http://wayf.dk/en 62

Sweden - SWAMID https://www.sunet.se/swamid/ 48
Switzerland - SWITCHaai https://www.switch.ch/aai 48

Canadian Access Federation https://www.canarie.ca 46

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