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distributed ownership **[+]**
- Open, Free, neutral networks
- Mutual agreement texts
- Key for EU Digital Agenda
# … distributed ownership (1/3)
![Private network and Internet access](imgs/network-private.png)
# … distributed ownership (2/3)
![Public network, private Internet access](imgs/network-public.png)
# … distributed ownership (3/3)
![Community network, assorted services](imgs/network-community.png)
# Community networks (CNs)
- Broadband self-provision
- Similar to Free software:
- Open participation & management,
distributed ownership
- Open, Free, neutral networks
- Mutual agreement texts
- Key for EU Digital Agenda
# The CONFINE project
- Partners **[+]**
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# … Partners
![CONFINE project partners](imgs/confine-partners.png)
# The CONFINE project
- Partners
- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research
(technologies & services)
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls) **[+]**
- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab
# … (Open Calls)
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# The CONFINE project
- Partners
- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research
(technologies & services)
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls)
- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab
# Community-Lab
- A testbed built on community networks
- Like PlanetLab:
- Global scale
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- Fair to other users
(no spying, no low-level, routing & above)
- Simple, tolerant to network failures
- Free software: build your own testbed!
# Community-Lab as community infrastructure
- Extend CNs with Community-Lab nodes and links **[+]**
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds
# … Extend CNs …
![Extending community networks](imgs/extend-network.png)
# Community-Lab as community infrastructure
- Extend CNs with Community-Lab nodes and links
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds
# Architecture and technologies
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- Testbed
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distributed ownership **[+]**
- Open, Free, neutral networks
- Mutual agreement texts
- Key for EU Digital Agenda
# … distributed ownership (1/3)
![Public network, private Internet access](imgs/network-public.png)
# … distributed ownership (2/3)
![Private network and Internet access](imgs/network-private.png)
# … distributed ownership (3/3)
![Community network, assorted services](imgs/network-community.png)
# Community networks (CNs)
- Broadband self-provision
- Similar to Free software:
- Open participation & management,
distributed ownership (public > private > community)
- Open, Free, neutral networks
- Mutual agreement texts
- Key for EU Digital Agenda
# The CONFINE project
- Partners **[+]**
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# … Partners
![CONFINE project partners](imgs/confine-partners.png)
# The CONFINE project
- Partners
- CNs: guifi.net, AWMN, Funkfeuer
- Research: UPC, iMinds, FKIE
- NGOs: Pangea, OPLAN
- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research
(technologies & services)
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls) **[+]**
- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab
# … (Open Calls)
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# The CONFINE project
- Partners
- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research
(technologies & services)
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls)
- 5 current ones
- 15+ more to come
- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab
# Community-Lab
- A testbed built on community networks
- Like PlanetLab:
- Global scale
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- Fair to other users
(no spying, no low-level, routing & above)
- Simple, tolerant to network failures
- Free software: build your own testbed!
# Community-Lab as community infrastructure
- Extend CNs **[+]**
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds
# … Extend CNs …
![Extending community networks](imgs/extend-network.png)
# Community-Lab as community infrastructure
- Extend CNs (with Community-Lab nodes and links)
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds
# Architecture and technologies
<!--- testbed architecture diagram --->
- Testbed
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