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Featured Articles » SMBs Turning to Retail, Wholesale VoIP for Cost Savings, Survey Reports » BluIP Inks Partnership with CenturiSoft, Enabling Unified Communications Including Virtual PBX to have Increased Capabilities » Phybridge and PosTrack Partner to Deploy an Integrated VoIP Solution for Wagner College » Several Reasons Why Cisco Prefers T.38 FoIP   Sponsored By: Panasonic SERIES 3 Tuesday, October 4, 2011 2:00pm EST 11:00am PST WEBINAR: Exceeding Expectations - The Power of SIP Communications for Small and Medium Sized Businesses The SIP market is growing rapidly as manufacturers bring a wider variety of solutions to market and small and medium sized businesses discover the benefits this new technology offers them. Learn how the different options in SIP solutions can benefit your business. What is SIP and what are the benefits of SIP solutions? Is SIP reliable? What are the financial advantages to SIP? What are the feature sets associated with SIP solutions? How Do I Know if SIP is right for my business? Register Here!   Top Stories » Mitel's Unified Communicator (UC) Advanced Software Now Supports Apple iPhone and iPad » More Mobility Means Happier Workers, More Issues for Business IT » Infrastructure as a Service Enabler Hexagrid Remains Dominant Player in the Space with Two New Announcements » V2VIP Video Phone Added to WCCI's Portfolio   From The Expert Corner September 27, 2011 Small Businesses are Big Business By Bob Emmerson, TMC European Editor Small- and medium-sized businesses – those ubiquitous SMBs – represent around half the gross national product of many countries and have done for many years. But until recently they have been poorly served by the ICT industry.  The main reason was the fact that it took almost as long to make a sale for a VoIP system or a UC solution to an SMB as to a much larger company, so the latter was more profitable. Moreover, SMBs tended not to have much in the way of technical resources, so more hand holding was needed. That situation has changed. Technology advances have given us out-of-the-box solutions, intuitive interfaces and more recently, UC software as a service. But downsizing solutions designed for enterprises does not deliver the requisite functionality for SMBs... Read More     Featured Video Interview with Fonolo   TMCnet Free Premium Content » Five Keys to Cut Operational Costs and Boost QoS in Your VoIP, SIP and UC Environment » What Do You Need to Know About Video Conferencing?    Latest Blogs » New Skype for iPhone & iPad Released » There's Disruption Everywhere   Featured Channels » Mobile Unified Communications » Voice Broadcast » VoIP Management   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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