Public Funding for Private Planet Limited

A consortia of four leading industry players; Avoco Secure (Lead partner), Private Planet, Imperial College and O2, has formed to create a solution that will bring personalised Cloud computing to the consumer. There has been a dramatic increase in the use of the internet by consumers. This is generally believed to be caused by the explosion of the social networking platforms such as Facebook. The Office for national Statistics, Internet Access 20110 survey, found that in the UK 30.9 million adults used the internet every day – double that of 2006 and that 31% of them accessed the internet through their mobile phone. CloudTrust is perfectly timed to take advantage of this massive surge in consumer use of the internet. The solution, funded by the Technology Strategy Board, will develop an integration between the Avoco Secure, user centric identity system and the Private Planet personal Cloud data store. The solution will result in a personalised Cloud based offering for individuals, which will allow them to; store, access and share their own content, access that information securely and in a privacy enhanced manner, as well as transact with third parties using that information to inform and to gain access to online services. The solution will be enhanced by a user centric policy engine as developed by Imperial College, allowing owners of a Private Planet store to control access and use of their data.

Project CLOUDSCAPE will deliver a fully functional digital services testbed for personal mobile broad-band network services. Supported by personal femtocells in the workplace and home and by personal cloud computing network proxy elements for each user, a cross-platform (computer / mobile ) QoS multi-media services can be managed and offered within the testbed. The testbed will also provide a services licensing and fees clearance framework between customers and software vendors offering services over the demonstrator network. The project will deliver: * an open digital services testbed centered around femtocell-oriented quality multimedia delivery supported by personal network node services and their use on a number of end-user platforms (mobile phones / laptops / desktops); *the management of seamless transition between different types of broadband connectivity (GPRS, EDGE, HDUPA, HSDPA, fixed broadband Femtocell) that will be available to software developers and users of the testbed; * a set of high-level Software Kits for mobile and computer development on the testbed network; * a business model for Test Bed launch enabling end-to-end value chain; * a test bed Developer Portal: Development of main tested portal for service developers and user registration, terms and conditions (legals); * a test bed Service Deployment Framework: a framework for launching testbed services for a number of end-user platforms.; * a testbed network Service Payment Gateway – enabling clearance of transactions between users and application (service) vendors; * Pilot test service provisioning and deployment; * Support and Operational Frameworks for Phase II of the project and testbed launch; The project consortium partners include Bubblephone (an IP network performance company), Private Planet (personal cloud computing provider), Coast Networks (a local Internet Service Provider with an existing SME user base) and Xtra Media (a software developer) to create an end-to-end value chain for personal network proxy services and quality femtocell and other mobile broadband content and service delivery. O2 (mobile network) will be used as subcontractor. The testbed will be opened and marketed to other end-users and other software vendors in Phase 2.

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