N-Wave's creation and long-term success is directly related to, and dependent on, the long-term trust relationships and partnerships it has developed with its federal agency stakeholders and within the Science, Research and Education (SR&E) community. These partnerships constitute the reasons for why N-Wave was built and is based on four key drivers - bandwidth, data delivery assurance, security and cost. Working collaboratively to solve networking solutions using these key drivers gives N-Wave the ability to support the important missions of its federal agency stakeholders.