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Spanish
Communications Provider Interdata Engineering Selects
iBasis for Expansion of International Services
Global
ISP and Satellite Communications Provider to Leverage
The iBasis Network™ for International VoIP Services;
Agreement Extends The iBasis Network to Spain
BARCELONA, Spain,
September 25, 2000-iBasis, Inc., (Nasdaq: IBAS),
the leader in advanced Internet-based communications,
today announced that Interdata Engineering, a worldwide
communications service provider with operations in
Spain, will use The iBasis NetworkTM to expand its
advanced voice communication services for global enterprises.
The announcement was made at the Carriers World conference
held in Barcelona, Spain. Interdata joins the more
than 100 global service providers that have chosen
iBasis for Internet Telephony.
Under the terms of
the agreement, Interdata Engineering will be able
to route international voice and fax traffic over
the iBasis Network, the world's largest international
Cisco Powered Network for Internet Telephony. In addition,
the agreement with Interdata extends iBasis' global
footprint to the major business centers of Spain.
Interdata Corporation
is a global communications systems and services provider,
supplying a wide range of value-added communications
solutions, as well as networking, engineering and
integration services, to businesses and service providers
around the world. Interdata's clients include multinational
telecommunications carriers, service providers and
small and medium-sized enterprises. In Spain, Interdata's
communications network covers the country's most important
commercial centers, including Madrid and Barcelona,
and the company is aggressively expanding its services
to the country's other major metropolitan areas.
"In selecting
a partner for IP-based communications, our choice
was clear: iBasis, the provider of choice for 10 of
the top 20 global carriers," said Alvaro Ramirez,
President and Founder of Interdata Engineering. "Using
the iBasis Network, we can efficiently extend our
global footprint, while delivering a quality of service,
backed by iBasis' unmatched IP and telecommunications
expertise, that has become the industry's benchmark
for carrier-class VoIP."
"Interdata has
quickly established itself as an innovative provider
of IP-based services to global enterprises,"
said Ofer Gneezy, president and CEO of iBasis, Inc.
"Our interconnection to Interdata's rapidly growing
network extends our ability to reach the most important
commercial centers of Spain."
The iBasis Network
and Carrier-Class VoIP
The iBasis Network is the world's largest international
Cisco Powered Network (CPN) for Internet telephony.
Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking
for the Internet. The iBasis Network comprises large
carrier-class switching facilities called Internet
Central OfficesTM, strategically located in Amsterdam,
Cambridge (Mass.), Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los
Angeles, New York and Vancouver, as well as numerous
smaller points of presence called Internet Branch
OfficesTM , which play an important role in both originating
and terminating traffic. With this global infrastructure
and through its telephony peering relationships with
other communications providers, iBasis can terminate
calls virtually anywhere in the world.
iBasis is the only
provider that guarantees service quality by offering
the industry's first Service Level Agreement (SLA)
for VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol). The key to
maintaining the high level of quality required by
the world's largest carriers is the company's proven,
proprietary Assured Quality RoutingÔ (AQRÔ) technology.
At the company's 24 x 7 Network Operations Center
(NOC), the nerve center of The iBasis Network, engineers
continuously monitor the global circuit-switched (PSTN)
and packet-switched (IP) networks to ensure the highest
quality of service to customers worldwide.
About Interdata
Engineering
Interdata Engineering is a world-class communications
systems provider and integrator, supplying value-added
communications and multimedia network solutions to
businesses and service providers around the world.
The company provides a complete range of communications
systems that incorporate all the networking, engineering,
and integration services needed to help clients apply
leading-edge technology more effectively in the global
marketplace. For more than eighteen years, Interdata
Corp. has provided communications and data services
to global enterprise clients in the USA, Europe, Russia,
the Caribbean, and Latin America.
About iBasis
Founded in 1996, iBasis (Nasdaq: IBAS) is the leader
in advanced Internet-based communications. iBasis
has built the world's first global IP network that
delivers toll quality voice and fax service and other
advanced hosted communications solutions, including
VoCoreSM Unified Communications, to global tier one
carriers and other service providers. The iBasis Network
is the world's largest international Cisco Powered
Network for Internet Telephony and the first to receive
the Unified Communications Cisco Powered Network (UC-CPN)
designation. More than 100 international service providers
are iBasis customers including 11 of the top 12 U.S.
international carriers. iBasis is listed in both the
Russell 2000® and Russell 3000® Indexes. The company
can be reached at its worldwide headquarters in Burlington,
Mass., USA at 781-505-7500 or on the Internet at www.ibasis.net
.
Except for historical
information, all of the expectations, projections
and assumptions contained in the foregoing press release
constitute forward-looking statements under the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve
risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially from such
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited
to, the considerations described as "Risk Factors"
in iBasis' prospectus dated March 9, 2000, and the
company's other SEC filings.
Assured Quality
Routing and AQR are registered trademarks, VoCore
is a service mark and iBasis, The iBasis Network,
Internet Central Office and Internet Branch Office
are trademarks of iBasis, Inc. Cisco and Cisco Powered
Network are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems,
Inc.
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