The NOBEL consortium has been constituted by a group of telecommunications operators, industrial companies and research centres offering wide expertise and technical excellence in the area of optical components and networks. NOBEL partners can be classified into four main categories:

• Network Operators
• Equipment Manufacturers
• Research Centres
• Universities

The european dimension of the 6FP has been carefully addressed in selection of the companies and research centres for the NOBEL consortium. NOBEL partners represent several countries of European union as well as countries which are currently in the process of accessing the community. Partners forming the NOBEL consortium represent large international companies; this is necessary for completing research work and test bed experiment on the most advanced telecommunications technologies. The opportunity of involving companies from the SME sector has been taken into account in selecting the most active and experienced research centres. Technical excellence and assorted experience of NOBEL consortium guarantee achievement of the overall project goals and assure the necessary consortium flexibility in defining next project phases towards providing broadband services for all European citizens.

1. Telecom Italia - TI - Italy
2. Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG (formerly Alcatel SEL AG)
3. Alcatel-Lucent France (formerly Alcatel CIT)
4. Alcatel-Lucent Italia S.p.A. (formerly Alcatel Italia S.p.A. )
5. British Telecommunications PLC - BT - UK
6. Ericsson AB - ERICSSON - Sweden
7. Lucent Technologies Network Systems GmbH - LUCENT GMBH - Germany has merged with Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG
8. Alcatel-Lucent Nederland BV (formerly Lucent Technologies Nederland BV )
9. Ericsson GmbH - EDD - Germany
10. Coreoptics GmbH - COREOPTICS - Germany
11. Pirelli Labs S.p.A. - PIR - Italy
12. Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH (formerly Siemens Aktiengesellschaft)
13. Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal - TELEFONICA I+D - Spain
14. Deutsche Telecom AG - DTAG - Germany
15. ACREO AB - ACREO - Sweden
16. Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza Im. Stanislawa Staszica W Krakowie - AGH - Poland
17. CISCO Systems International BV - CISCO - Netherlands
18. Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya - CTTC - Spain
19. France Telecom - FT - France
20. Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. - FRAUNHOFER - Germany
21. Interdisciplinar Instituut Voor Breedbandtecchnologie VZW - IBBT - Belgium
22. Institute of Communications and Computer Systems - ICCS - Greece
23. CoreCom - Consorzio Ricerche Elaborazione Commutazione Ottica Milano - CORECOM - Italy
24. Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna - SSSA - Italy
25. Telenor ASA - TELENOR - Norway
26. University College of London - UCL - UK
27. Budapest University of Technology and Economics - BME - Hungary
28. University OF Stuttgart - USTIKR - Germany
29. Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya - UPC - Spain
30. Universitŕ degli studi di Padova - UNIPD - Italy
31. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN - Italy
32. Politecnico di Torino - POLITO - Italy