Think-Trust

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) is one of France's leading graduate engineering schools in the field of Communication and Information Technologies. Its disciplines include all the sciences and techniques that fall within the term "Information and Communications”: Computer Science Networks, Communications, Electronics, Signal and Image Processing, as well as the study of economic and social aspects associated with modern technology. The school was founded more than a hundred years ago and is classed among the Grandes Ecoles d'Ingénieurs. Because of its high scientific standard and the extremely competitive admission procedures, ENST can be compared to the highest level engineering schools and universities that one would find abroad. The school produces about 250 state certified engineers each year. The school is publicly funded, with close links with a number of partner institutions: it is part of a federation of schools in telecommunications, called the GET (Groupement des Ecoles de Télécommunications) and a member of ParisTech, a multi-campus networks of nine graduate engineering schools, all located in the Paris area.

TU Darmstadt is Germany's premier Technical University and especially for Computer Science. Within the CS department, the DEEDS (Dependable Systems and SW) Group specifically targets research for the development, assessment and validation of systems, services and protocols as an infrastructural basis for trustworthy systems and services. The DEEDS group is internationally renowned for its unique composite coverage of dependability + security research and has garnered extensive ongoing support from the European Commission, US NSF, US DARPA, Airbus, Audi, Saab, Volvo, Daimler Chrysler, NASA, IBM, Boeing, Microsoft and Intel among others. The DEEDS group also leads the technical efforts for an existing FP6 IP on component based dependable embedded systems (DECOS) and as part of the Dependability/Security NoE ReSIST. The DEEDS prior EU involvements include dependability STREPS of NextTTA, FIT, Dbench, as well as extensive ongoing EC project review and evaluation activities.

TELSCOM Consulting AG is a professional consulting company active in broadband communication and Internet solutions provision. TELSCOM is active in European Union projects since 1987 and has built up a wide network of clients and partners. They have participated in 6INIT, 6WINIT projects, which laid further foundation for projects like NGNLAB, Euro6IX, Eurv6 showcase etc. where Telscom is a major partner. Their expertise varies from IPv6 protocols, deploying QoS (IntServ and DiffServ), security and scalable networks for their clients. The know-how from these activities was  extended to the SecurIST project, which TELSCOM was a partner. TELSCOM specialises in addressing the interworking and interoperability issues of heterogeneous networks. They have an IPv6 test-bed in Basel supporting both NGNLAB and Eurov6 showcase projects and having connectivity to GEANT and native IPv6 wide area networks (6NET and Euro6IX), they will have access to the latest technology update from Manufacturers and Service Providers, which can be used for improving the project directions. They are one of the key players in 6LINK, an IPv6 cluster support project, similar to SecurIST, and hence have gained a competence to manage the clusters.