The consortium consists of eight partners with clearly distinguished roles, functions and expertise areas, strongly complementing and supporting one another. Out of the 8 partners, 5 are commercial companies, with two on the software design including EXENT and AZERTIA and three end user ASP/ISP (PMG part of KPN, ESN and Metaboli). The other three members are academic institutes, which will take part in the project's implementation (CTI) on the network research (University of Abertay IC-Cave) and the last one on the requirement evaluation and exploitation (University of Stuttgart).