At the VoiceCon trade show Wednesday, Verizon Business unveiled several enhancements to Hosted IP Centrex—its premier "in-the-cloud" Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service—that make it easier for businesses to leverage IP networks and applications into effective telework solutions.

Also at the trade show, Verizon Business is demonstrating how several of the company's other products and services enable companies and individuals to take advantage of the transformation to telework.

The new enhancements are:

• Expansion of the company's Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks (BEST) capability to Hosted IP Centrex. BEST enables cost savings by allowing customers to use idle VoIP capacity in one location to accommodate an increase in traffic from another location; and
  
• The addition of features that enable Hosted IP Centrex customers to make the virtual office a reality for remote workers and allow businesses to more efficiently establish a local presence.

The enhancements combine with a wide range of innovative Verizon offerings to help organizations employ telework as a strategy to do more with less, enhance workforce mobility and productivity, and achieve environmental objectives—all essential in today's business climate.