[Asterisk-Users] Hotel Setup?

[Tom Rymes]

IMHO, I would imagine that you would be best advised to use the  
existing analog phones and wiring with a channel bank or two, and  
then use the cat5 cable for internet. I think it might even be  
possible to make the MWI on the analog hotel phones work with Asterisk.

Billing, however, is a whole other matter.

Tom

On Sep 12, 2005, at 10:00 AM, kurth at ozonecomputer.com wrote:

> Small world.
>
> The Inn was going to work on absorbing the cost of the system and  
> the VoIP
> service.  The phones would be just cheapie grandstream phones,  
> which work
> out to about the same as regular analog phones.  More features, no  
> cost,
> the owners are thinking they can lever this edge to attract more  
> business
> customers and such.
>
> I have a serious problem with more hardware in each room.  More  
> things to
> get stolen, broken, etc.  Plus have the costs of the adapter, plus the
> cost of the phone, and you are right back to a Budgetone price.  More
> cables, more things to play with.  Plus you need to provide an outlet,
> whereas I could do PoE and eliminate yet another source of  
> problems.  I
> would like a phone, and a cat5 cable.  That's it.  You want internet
> access, use wireless or the cable.
>
> You can't depend on the customer to do the right thing.  Ever.  In  
> fact,
> count on them doing the wrong thing.  All the time :-)
>
> On a sidenote, I would like to know how using a port based PVLAN  
> setup and
> DHCP won't provide adequate isolation between rooms.  Am I unclear on
> something?
>
> ~kurth
>
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