[November 12, 2012]

iBasis Selects AMS-IX for Inter-IPX Service

iBasis (News - Alert), a KPN company, today announced that it will use the AMS-IX Inter-IPX service as part of its strategy to extend the reach of its IPX product portfolio. AMS-IX offers iBasis a secure and efficient one-stop shop to interconnect to other IPX providers and exchange voice and data services.

The open interconnect solution provided by AMS-IX allows iBasis' customers to peer IP traffic with other mobile networks and achieve significant operational cost savings by bundling multiple services over a single, managed interconnect in one facility. The mobile services initially supported by iBasis over the AMS-IX Inter-IPX service include Premium Voice IPX, LTE (News - Alert) signaling, GRX, and Sigtran.

AMS-IX was the first to introduce a service focused on IPX providers faced with the challenge of a future in which the distinction between mobile and fixed networking will gradually disappear. The service offers a place where regional and neighboring IPX networks can efficiently link to each other and cover more territory, content and volume. The Inter-IPX service complies with the high quality standards required by GSMA (News - Alert) and includes an Inter-IPX SLA.

The combination of the critical mass of business partners, the stable all-IP environment, the historical success of the AMS-IX GRX service, and this new carrier grade Inter-IPX SLA option led iBasis to select the AMS-IX Inter-IPX solution. "AMS-I not only offers us a single point where we can exchange multiple services quickly with many different mobile operators, it also gives us guaranteed end-to-end quality of service through the Inter-IPX SLA," said Chris Lengyel, iBasis Director of Strategic Marketing and New Products.

"We are pleased that iBasis has chosen to connect to our Inter-IPX service and in this way recognizes the value of this service for its organization and end-users," says Job Witteman, CEO of AMS-IX. "With its innovative and high level of service iBasis is a valuable addition to our Inter-IPX community."

About AMS-IX

AMS-IX - Amsterdam Internet Exchange - is a neutral and independent Internet Exchange based in Amsterdam - The Netherlands since the early 1990's. AMS-IX interconnects over 520 IP networks and has a traffic peak of 2 Terabit per second, making it the largest Internet Exchange in the world. The AMS-IX platform provides a professional, high quality, non-blocking peering service for all types of IP traffic, be it regular IP data such as email or web content, to also video/TV and hosting & cloud parties. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobile peering point worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX), the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX) and the first interconnection of IPX networks (Inter-IPX). http://www.ams-ix.net

About iBasis

A wholly-owned KPN (News - Alert) company, iBasis is a leading international voice carrier and a provider of retail prepaid calling services and data services for mobile operators. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of voice termination services and data services, including messaging, signaling and roaming, for many of the world's largest fixed and mobile operators, as well as "over-the-top" and voice-over-broadband service providers. iBasis customers include KPN and its mobile operators, KPN Mobile, E-Plus, and KPN Belgium, and more than 1,000 other providers, including Verizon (News - Alert), Vodafone, China Mobile, China Unicom, Skype, TDC, Telecom Italia, and Telefonica. The company can be reached at its worldwide headquarters in Burlington, Mass., USA at +1 781-505-7500 or on the Internet at www.ibasis.com.

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