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Comment: | Streamline intro to community networks. |
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User & Date: | ivan on 2012-09-19 21:04:01 |
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2012-09-19
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21:25 | Streamline section on challenges an requirements. check-in: a2f0441907 user: ivan tags: trunk | |
21:04 | Streamline intro to community networks. check-in: 68922550ca user: ivan tags: trunk | |
20:29 | State that the FEDERICA is an academic backbone. check-in: 7b5d377d26 user: ivan tags: trunk | |
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1 1 #+title: Community-Lab: A Community Networking Testbed for the Future Internet 2 2 3 3 * Introduction 4 4 ** Community networks 5 -- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies and 6 - governments left behind people and regions of little economic interest for 7 - them. Thus some groups started coordinating the deployment of their own 8 - networks for self-provision. 5 +- Infrastructure deployed by organized groups of people for self-provision of 6 + broadband networking that works and grows according to their own interests. 9 7 - Characteristics: Open participation, open and transparent management, 10 - distributed ownership, works and grows according to users' interests. 11 -- Prospective: Strategic importance for the expansion of broadband access 12 - throughout Europe (as stated in the European Digital Agenda). 8 + distributed ownership. 9 +- CNs are of strategic importance for the universal availability of broadband 10 + networking (according to the European Digital Agenda). 13 11 - A challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of community 14 12 networks by providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research. 15 13 16 -** The CONFINE project (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet) 14 +** The CONFINE project: Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet 17 15 - Takes on the previous challenge. 18 16 - Project supported by the European Community Framework Programme 7 within the 19 17 Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (FIRE). 20 18 - Partners (list with logos): (community networks) guifi.net, Funkfeuer, 21 19 Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network; (research centres) Universitat 22 20 Politècnica de Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, 23 21 Information Processing and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for