Springfield, MA – Thing5, the leader in SIP trunking and hosted PBX for the hospitality industry, announced today that it has attained a new milestone in growth with over 2,000 hotels utilizing its SIP trunking and hosted PBX platform.

An increase in staffing necessitated in response to the market demand for Thing5's solutions, and the company's commitment to consistently provide clients with excellent service while rapidly deploying its solution to new users.

"We are extremely pleased to be adding clients and hiring in this turbulent economy. I believe that this is due to our solution's strong cost-savings value proposition, rather than being a technology upgrade solely for the sake of new technology. We are looking for additional talent based on our growth trajectory," commented Thing5 managing director, Bill Faxon. Thing5 has attracted individuals from AT&T and other major corporations in telecommunications and software.

Thing5's enterprise solution utilizes burstable IP trunking; this enables on-demand sharing of under-utilized trunk capacity. Thing5 clients take advantage of its fixed rate calling, reducing their monthly telecommunications expense immediately - in most case by 40-60%. Thing5's hosted PBX eliminates the significant capital expense associated with buying new or replacement PBX equipment. With Thing5's solution, applications such as voicemail, automatic call distribution, audio conferencing and instant messaging are hosted in geographically redundant data centers rather than by the clients, and delivered as managed Internet protocol (IP) services over the Web, helping to control setup and operational costs. Thing5 provides its hosted PBX platform via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.

Thing5's web-based dashboard gives end-users complete control of their telephony environment via its intuitive user interface. End-users can easily add, edit and delete phones and contacts, define and change their find-me/follow-me preferences with sequential or simultaneous ringing, manage their conference bridges and view and download call and conference reports.

Carol Guerra
Direcor of Marketing
413.241.2510