The Comptroller of Maryland, Mr. Peter Franchot will address invited guests at iCore Networks’ ribbon-cutting ceremony to be held at 8:00 AM on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at iCore’s new Columbia office location.

iCore Networks, the D.C.-based leading provider of Hosted Unified Communications & Cloud Applications Services, originally opened their Columbia office in 2010 and since then has doubled their Baltimore market customer base by growing over 100% from 2010-2011.. In order to better serve and deepen its footprint within the region, iCore has moved into expanded office space located on 8850 Stanford Boulevard, Suite 2800, Columbia, MD, 21045. The ribbon- cutting ceremony and proclamation address from Mr. Franchot will mark the grand opening of the new location.

Previously located at 5950 Symphony Woods Road, the new office, will allow iCore to continue to recruit and hire at this location with the goal of exceeding 50 employees within the year. The focus of employees at the Columbia office will continue to be to service their existing customers, keeping them up-to-date on iCore’s expanding service offerings, such as On-Demand Cloud Applications, as well as focusing on further development of new business and prospects in Baltimore region.

“I’m honored to have the Comptroller of Maryland in attendance and speaking on our behalf at our ribbon-cutting event,” said Chairman and CEO Stephen G. Canton. “We are very excited for the opportunities our new Columbia office brings to us and the Baltimore community. We are committed to recruiting new members for the Columbia team from this region with plans to double our size here within the next year, while introducing even more customers to the benefits and new features of cloud-based hosted unified communications services.”

Baltimore customers will also receive the benefits of iCore’s fully operational on-site Network Operation Center (NOC) located at their headquarters in McLean. The state-of the-art operation center hosts a fully functional lab environment consisting of Cisco Systems, BroadSoft and Linux based systems. With over 55,000+ customers, the network will continue to be supported by two fully redundant Datacenters monitored at the NOC facility.

About iCore Networks

iCore is the leading provider of Hosted Unified Communications & Cloud Applications services. iCore has been named number 29 on the Inc.500 list and has been recognized as one of the nation’s fastest growing companies by the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO Magazine. iCore was one of the original providers of cloud-based hosted services and the first company in the United States to provide a fully managed end-to-end Voice over Private Internet (VoPI) service from the handset to the internet. Unlike VoIP, VoPI provides a managed, secure, hosted, end-to-end voice and data system that gives businesses Fortune 500 capabilities at a savings over their current voice and data providers. This includes local and long distance calling, internet connectivity, unified messaging (faxing/voicemail/email) and added features such as conference calling. iCore backs those capabilities with the most customer-oriented employees in the industry; unprecedented reliability and disaster recovery tools; and world-class employee support and training. For more information about iCore Networks, please visit http://www.icore.com.