<p>Community networks are an emerging and successful model for the Future Internet across Europe and far\&nbsp;beyond. The CONFINE project complements existing FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) infrastructures by\&nbsp;establishing Community-Lab, a new facility for experimentallydriven research built on the federation of existing community IP\&nbsp;networks constituted by more than 20,000 nodes and 20,000 Km\&nbsp;of links. In this paper we present the benefits of having such\&nbsp;testbed for the research community as well as the improvement\&nbsp;and evolution of community networks themselves. This paper\&nbsp;presents i) the challenges and requirements for Community-Lab,\&nbsp;ii) the resulting testbed architecture, iii) the current state of\&nbsp;implementation and iv) the integration of the testbed with existing\&nbsp;community networks.</p> <p>\&nbsp;</p>