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iBasis Launches Internet Telephony
Hosting
New services complement the company’s wholesale VoIP business,
enable new market entrants, accelerate growth of Internet telephony
Burlington, Mass. -- iBasis, Inc.,(NASDAQ: IBAS) the leader in
international Internet telephony, today announced the industry’s first
Internet telephony hosting services. With iBasis Internet Telephony
HostingTM, telephony service providers and international ISPs have access
to a turnkey solution that enables them to quickly begin offering voice,
fax, pre-paid calling and other value-added VoIP services, with minimal
capital investment. These new services include hosting of
voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) equipment in iBasis Internet Central
Offices, access to high quality Internet backbone and Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN) termination and the Operational Support Systems (OSS)
necessary for traffic management, reporting and customer billing.
"There is a huge wave of traffic moving to the Internet, and iBasis,
with these new Internet telephony hosting services and its proven global
network, is well positioned to do for international telecommunications
providers what UUNET has done for ISPs," said Mark Winther, group
vice president, Worldwide Telecommunications, IDC. "iBasis is
offering service providers a new model for obtaining the critical
infrastructure and management resources they need to be successful in
international Internet telephony."
"Sharing Cisco’s vision of packet-based communications, iBasis
established itself early as a leading provider of VoIP," said Kevin
Kennedy, sr. vice president and general manager, Service Provider Line of
Business, Cisco Systems. "Now it is becoming a catalyst,
helping other service providers make a swift transition to the New World
of IP telephony."
"We have built the world’s largest international Cisco Powered
Network for Internet telephony and are delivering toll quality service to
tier one carriers over that infrastructure using our proprietary Assured
Quality Routing technology," said Ofer Gneezy, president and CEO of
iBasis. "Now, with iBasis Internet Telephony Hosting, we are
combining that Internet telephony expertise, global footprint and our
operational support services to deliver a modular, turnkey solution that
enables service providers around the world to quickly enter the rapidly
growing market for international voice and fax services over the
Internet."
iBasis Internet Telephony Hosting: A World of Opportunity for Service
Providers
iBasis is the proven leader in Internet telephony, employing unparalleled
technological expertise to develop and deploy the world’s first global
VoIP network that provides toll quality service to tier one carriers. Now,
with the addition of Internet telephony hosting, the company is broadening
its offerings to deliver services that appeal not only to large
international carriers, but also to new types of customers, such as
emerging service providers and international ISPs that want to leverage
the company’s world-class platform to rapidly establish a global
footprint.
Telecommunications carriers, both wireline and wireless, whose existing
network footprint is local, regional or national in scope, can use iBasis
Internet Telephony Hosting to extend both their services and their brand
to the international marketplace with overseas call origination and
termination.
For emerging carriers, iBasis Internet Telephony Hosting offers an
"instant global network," without the significant investments in
equipment, time and operational and regulatory groundwork required to
build a global telephony network. In the same way that outsourcing
dial up access enables ISPs to focus on recruiting and retaining
customers, iBasis Internet Telephony Hosting lets new service providers
leverage their brand and focus their resources on sales, marketing, and
customer service rather than on establishing and maintaining a telephony
infrastructure.
For network service providers and systems integrators that build
enterprise-wide networks, iBasis Internet Telephony Hosting provides the
additional elements required to voice-enable their solutions. An
integrated voice and data solution reduces their customers’ telephony
costs, with no reduction in call quality or need for end user training.
In addition, iBasis Internet Telephony Hosting can provide IP call-routing
and billing management services, access to iBasis’ proprietary Assured
Quality Routing technology, as well as low cost, off-net termination for
calls to points beyond a customer’s network.
With a proven global network and automated billing services, iBasis
Internet Telephony Hosting enables e-businesses to quickly and
economically add the power of voice and real-time fax to their solutions.
Global Network Expansion to Create Platform For Value-added Services
In order to meet the rapidly growing demand for its core voice and fax
services as well as to deliver new hosting solutions, iBasis is
significantly expanding its global infrastructure. As of December
1999, the company has Internet Central Offices in Frankfurt, Hong Kong,
London, Los Angeles and New York and can terminate voice and fax traffic
in virtually every country in the world. The company plans to quadruple
the number of Internet Central Offices (ICOs) in its network from five to
20 by the end of 2000, substantially increasing infrastructure capacity.
As the market for advanced, IP-based communications expands, this
large-scale, network expansion will ensure that iBasis has the global
platform necessary to deliver the value-added services that will drive the
next wave of growth in Internet telephony.
About iBasis
Founded in 1996, iBasis (NASDAQ: IBAS) is the global leader in
international Internet telephony. iBasis uniquely combines a
superior technology platform, premium Internet bandwidth and proprietary
Assured Quality Routing(TM) (AQR) software to deliver toll quality
Internet telephony services to tier one carriers and other international
service providers. The iBasis Network(TM), a global, high-capacity
Internet communications network, is the world’s largest international
Cisco Powered Network for Internet Telephony. The company can be reached
at its worldwide headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA at
781-505-7500 or on the Internet at www.ibasis.net.
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