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    13     13   - A challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of community
    14     14     networks by providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.
    15     15   
    16     16   ** The CONFINE project (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet)
    17     17   - Takes on the previous challenge.
    18     18   - Project supported by the European Community Framework Programme 7 within the
    19     19     Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (FIRE).
    20         -- Partners (list with logos): Fundació guifi.net, Funkfeuer, Athens Wireless
    21         -  Metropolitan Network (community networks); Universitat Politècnica de
    22         -  Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing
    23         -  and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology
    24         -  (research centres); the OPLAN Foundation, Pangea (NGOs).
           20  +- Partners (list with logos): (community networks) guifi.net, Funkfeuer,
           21  +  Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network; (research centres) Universitat
           22  +  Politècnica de Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication,
           23  +  Information Processing and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for
           24  +  Broadband Technology; (NGOs) the OPLAN Foundation, Pangea.
    25     25   - Objectives: Provide a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for
    26     26     researchers to experiment on real community networks.
    27     27   
    28     28   ** Testbeds
    29     29   - Environments built with real hardware for realistic experimental research on
    30     30     network technologies (instead of simulations).
    31         -- Wireless: Berlin RoofNet, MIT Roofnet (outdoor); IBBT's w-iLab.t, CERTH's
    32         -  NITOS, WINLAB's ORBIT (indoor).  Limited local scale, controlled
    33         -  environment, no resource sharing between experiments.
           31  +- Wireless: (outdoor) Berlin RoofNet, MIT Roofnet; (indoor) IBBT's w-iLab.t,
           32  +  CERTH's NITOS, WINLAB's ORBIT.  Limited local scale, controlled environment,
           33  +  no resource sharing between experiments.
    34     34   - Internet: PlanetLab, planet-scale testbed with resource sharing on nodes.
    35     35     Main inspiration for Community-Lab.
    36     36   
    37     37   ** Community-Lab: a testbed for community networks
    38     38   - The testbed developed by CONFINE.
    39     39   - Integrates and extends three Community Networks: guifi.net, FunkFeuer, AWMN.
    40     40   # Node maps here for CNs with captures from node DBs.