America’s Fastest-Growing Telecommunications Company

One Source Networks manages wide-area networks and provides VoIP services for large and midsize customers.

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CEO Ernest Cunningham

COMPANY PROFILE

Company: One Source Networks

2012 Rank: No. 420

3-Year Growth: 884%

2011 Revenue: $21.7 million

As anyone who has scanned a phone bill knows, telecom companies don't like to make things easy. One Source Networks is different. The company, which builds and manages data and voice-over-Internet-protocol networks for large companies such as Intuit and ClearChannel, provides a single source of contact—and a single bill—for clients' telecom systems, regardless of how many carriers or vendors are actually involved behind the scenes. "We become the single throat to choke to make our customers' lives easier," says Ernest Cunningham, who founded One Source in 2006, after his previous employer, Broadwing Communications, was acquired by Level 3 Communications. Cunningham attributes his company's success to increasing demand for cloud-based applications and VoIP services, which require increasingly sophisticated data networks.

Darren Dahl is a contributing editor at Inc. Magazine, which he has written for since 2004. He also works as a collaborative writer and editor and has partnered with several high-profile authors. Dahl lives in Asheville, NC.