Top Massachusetts telecom companies

Continued growth in Internet traffic helped boost Akamai technologies, and profits at Starent Networks zoomed 428 percent on the strength of data traffic. Companies ranked by revenue in 2008. iBasis, which carries voice calls over the Internet, had strong revenue growth after completing a $55 million acquisition. Companies ranked by revenue in 2008.

Rank	Company	Revenue (millions)	Change (percent)
1	American Tower Corp.	$1,593.5	9.4
2	3Com Corp.	$1,354.9	6.5
3	iBasis	$1,323.6	41.0
4	Novell	$940.5	-0.5
5	Skyworks Solutions	$859.7	13.7
6	Akamai Technologies	$790.9	24.3
7	Sonus Networks	$313.1	-2.0
8	Starent Networks Corp.	$254.1	74.3
9	IPG Photonics Corp.	$229.1	21.4
10	Atlantic Tele-Network	$207.3	11.0