iBasis - Top 10 VoIP Leaders

Website: www.ibasis.com

What makes it a fierce leader: The future of pure play retail VoIP may be questionable, but at the wholesale end of the market another Massachusetts firm, iBasis has emerged as one of the global voice giants. Dutch incumbent KPN took a 51 percent stake in iBasis in the fall and combined its wholesale business with iBasis' already strong IP voice carriage business. The combined entity emerged as the number two carrier of international traffic in the world, second to Verizon and eclipsing even AT&T.
What to look for: The plan is to convert KPN's TDM traffic to IP and generate significant savings. This is also the model iBasis is offering to any service provider looking to make the move from TDM to IP --rather than go through the pain of a new infrastructure, outsource the business to a wholesaler like IBasis. Similarly as click to talk functionality continues to be rolled out across the internet, iBasis is very well positioned to manage the international traffic for the multitude of providers expected to blossom as voice apps becomes embedded everywhere.