M5 Networks Launches Office in Chicago.Leading Hosted VoIP Provider Now Gives Superior Service and Reliability to Chicago-Area Businesses Including The Royal Danish Consulate and RapidApp NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of & CHICAGO -- M5 Networks, one of the country's leading outsourced IP phone system providers, today announced its expansion to the Chicago, IL, metropolitan area, now providing its industry-leading hosted VoIP phone See IP phone and softphone. system to Chicago-based small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Building upon a successful six years of rock-solid, reliable IP phone system deployments and unparalleled client service in the New York metro For the region, see . Metro New York is a free daily newspaper in New York City started in 2004. Its main competition is AM New York, with which it practices many of the same distribution and marketing strategies. area, Chicago is the second major metropolitan area the company serves with a full sales and implementation staff. Reaffirming M5's reputation for quality and reliability among SMBs, a recent AMI-Partners study highlights M5 Networks as one of the top two leading independent service providers that SMBs look to for their hosted VoIP solutions. "The Chicago market is ripe for a boom in business-class VoIP services. We've seen demand for reliable VoIP services from many Chicago-area businesses in the planning and early deployment phases," said Fred Hoch, President, and Illinois IT Association (ITA ITA abbr. initial teaching alphabet ITA initial teaching alphabet: a partly phonetic alphabet used to teach reading ITA n abbr (BRIT) (= initial teaching alphabet) → ). "Businesses don't want to deal with the hassle of buying and maintaining a phone system - instead they can turn to a service provider such as M5 Networks to provide the kind of quality service and support that organizations can truly trust." One Chicago-based organization that has implemented M5's hosted VoIP phone system is the Royal Danish Consulate. The organization is part of a global network of officers in sixty-five countries under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs foreign affairs pl.n. Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. One of six Consulate branches in the U.S., the Royal Danish Consulate in Chicago relies heavily on the flexibility, reliability and value-add features of hosted VoIP service for the services it performs, ranging from assisting Danish tourists and citizens in the Midwest to helping Danish businesses establish a presence in U.S. markets. "We absolutely have to be accessible to Danish citizens in times of distress, so our phone system's reliability is vital to effectively serving Danes in the Midwest. M5's IP phone system delivers the quality and reliability we require," said Mads Mikkelsen Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen is a Danish actor. He was born on November 22 1965 in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, Denmark. , Counsel General, Royal Danish Consulate. "Also, M5's system is so flexible and easy to use that it helps us stay productive, even on a global scale, which is essential to the nature of our work. We can plug into the Chicago office's phone system from headquarters in Denmark - or anywhere in the world - and still have the full functionality of our phones." RapidApp, a North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. IT infrastructure consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a with headquarters in Chicago, also uses M5's service. Cost, ease of use, flexibility and reliability were all critical to RapidApp, which has remote offices dispersed throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The flexibility of the system and support from M5's staff also enabled the company to easily move its headquarters. "We've followed VoIP technology from the beginning, so we immediately saw the value M5's outsourced IP phone system would bring to the company. Some of our employees spend 80 to 90 percent of their day on the phone and travel extensively, making both advanced features and reliability critical requirements," said Mitch Northcutt, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , RapidApp. "M5's flexibility and support also made the recent relocation of our Chicago corporate headquarters a non-issue. The RapidApp staff loves how easy it is to use M5, especially with all the advanced VoIP features that weren't available with our old key system." M5 Networks' expansion to the Chicago marketplace builds upon a foundation of successful operations and profitability in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. metro area This article is about the music production team. For the article about population centers, see metropolitan area. Metro Area are a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani. , where the company saw 4,445 percent growth in revenues over the last five years. In 2006, M5 Networks secured the first round of venture capital funding in the company's history, in order to fuel its expansion to other metropolitan area markets in the U.S. including Chicago. The company currently has over 500 clients based in the New York area, including Long Island and New Jersey, and in 2006 announced its hosted VoIP service would support branch offices throughout the U.S. "As more Chicago businesses demand quality, reliable VoIP service, they are turning to proven providers to take away the headaches associated with in-house IP PBX (Internet Protocol Private Branch eXchange) A telephone switch that supports voice over IP (VoIP). IP PBXs convert IP phone calls into traditional circuit-switched TDM connections for the PSTN. systems. Tested in the most rigorous telecom market in the world for more than six years, M5 has the right solution to aid Chicago businesses' migration to VoIP," said Dan Hoffman, President & CEO, M5 Networks. "With this expansion, M5 now has the ability to serve companies headquartered in both New York and Chicago as well as branch offices all across the U.S." About The Royal Danish Consulate The Consulate General/Trade Commission of Denmark in Chicago provides assistance to Danish Nationals in 16 Midwestern States of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Issues passports and drivers licenses. Obtain absentee ballots for elections in Denmark Elections in Denmark gives information on elections and election results in Denmark. Denmark elects a legislature on a national level. The Danish Parliament (Folketinget) has 179 members elected for four year terms. . Provides emergency assistance to Danish Nationals in need. A majority of their resources are focused on providing assistance to Danish companies wishing to introduce their products to the U.S. market place. About RapidApp RapidApp, Headquartered in Chicago, is a North American IT infrastructure consulting firm with significant experience designing, planning, and deploying IT network and systems infrastructures. RapidApp employs RapidDeploy(tm), a road-tested process for designing and deploying network and systems infrastructure. RapidDeploy(tm) is an accelerated five-stage process that starts with facilitated design and planning sessions and centers on our unique deployment management teams. RapidApp assists our clients with the design and deployment of virtual infrastructure solutions, active directory design and migrations, secure access solutions, Infrastructure recoverability, and application delivery and deployment solutions. For more information about RapidApp, visit: www.rapidapp.com. About M5 Networks M5 Networks is one of the country's leading outsourced IP phone system providers. By outsourcing to M5 instead of buying another phone system and signing more local and long distance contracts, businesses save valuable time and hard dollars. M5 was founded in 2000 by the same management team that ran Interport Communications, the ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. pioneer for New York businesses. M5 builds on that legacy by continually innovating to improve its outsourced phone system solution, which is delivering measurable ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). to companies in all industries. M5 is a member of Cisco System's Cisco Powered Network program. Recognized as a leading company in the VoIP industry, M5 was named to the 2006 Inc. 500 (#272) and both the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (#54) and 2006 New York Technology Fast 50 (#5) awards programs. M5 has also been included on the Pulver 100 list as a Communications Growth Company for four consecutive years (2002-2005), FierceVoIP's annual Fierce 15 list in 2005 and the VoIP Magazine 20: Companies to Watch in 2006 list. M5 also received Frost & Sullivan's 2004 Entrepreneurial Company Award and the 2004 and 2005 VoIP Service Provider Awards, the 2005 Best SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. VoIP Service Provider Award and the 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine. Small Business Technology Magazine named M5's Outsourced IP Phone System one of the finalists in its 2005 Product of the Year awards program. To learn more about M5, please visit http://www.m5net.com. 
M5 Networks' Chicago Office closed on 10/1/2008 |
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