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With the economy having yet to fully rebound, enterprises and SMBs still need to control their operating costs and make certain that they are not overstaffed. However, companies that wish to remain competitive also need to invest in cutting-edge communication technologies that can increase their efficiency and offer new avenues to conduct business.

INX Inc., a leading IP Communications and data center solutions provider for enterprise organizations, completed the upgradation of Austin Travis County Integral Care's (ATCIC's) unified communication solution and also deployed 300 users to the Cisco VoIP phone system.

To provide personalized VoIP service to businesses all around the country, POP VoIP, a telecommunications service provider based in Brooklyn, N.Y., has been rapidly expanding its service.

Hosted VoIP has represented a significant growth in the last few years and has been widely used in the education sector. Broadcore, a national provider of an all-in-one business communications service with comprehensive client support, has been selected as a finalist in the search for a district-wide provider of hosted VoIP services to the Canyons School District in Sandy, Utah.

Nefsis, a provider of online video conferencing services, announced the launch of Nefsis Basic and an upgrade program which will be available for former users of Dimdim Web conferencing online services.

Over the last few years, the majority of enterprises and SMBs have made the transition to IP-based communication technologies, leaving behind their old legacy phone systems that are less flexible and more expensive to maintain.

Wholesale telecommunications services provider Pac-West Inc.'s in-demand border controller Telastic, launched in September 2010, has routed more than a billion minutes. The sea change in VoIP is due to the unprecedented growth in the session border controller market, said Vic Bozzo, president of Pac-West's Telastic Business Unit. This controller is being selected by many companies to secure their VoIP systems scalably without spending a lot of money in the box up-front.

Independent telecommunications company Kalama Telephone has deployed Positron's flagship AK525 eight pair MIMO-on-DMT Carrier Ethernet product to deliver high-speed premium data services to their residential and small and medium business (SMB) customers.