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A CAS client is required to interface with the CAS server. There are a number of CAS clients available for a wide variety of programming languages, web servers, and middleware. For more information on configuring your CAS client, you can reference the Further CAS Assistance links below. 

Though well adopted in Higher Education, for more universal Web Single Sign-On solution, we also offer SAML 2.0 via Shibboleth. Visit our section on Shibboleth for more information.

The University’s CAS implementation consists of three 4 main production CAS servers in a high availability configuration. The servers have been distributed among multiple data centers to provide redundancy in the event of a disaster. The diagram below shows the server layout, as well as the basic workflow. For more detailed information on how the CAS protocol works, see The CAS Protocol for Application Owners

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