<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well, most hotels I can think of (not small "mom & pops") will want to have the phone billing interface directly with their main billing software so that a guest's phone calls will appear on his/her room bill without any manual data entry. This makes IPSwitchboard's solution less than perfect for all but the smallest hotels, I think (YMMV). <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As for whether a hotel will want to use the PC based switchboard, I imagine that will depend entirely on the hotel and their management.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tom</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 17, 2005, at 10:22 AM, smbPBX wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Tom:<BR> <BR> Thanks. I was afraid of a reply like yours.<BR> How do hotels feel about a PC-screen based switchborads like IPSwitchboard or Flash Opeartor Panel? Is it to much of a change to get used to or too much of loss of functionality? IPSwitchborad also claims to a "hotel" billing as part of it.<BR> <BR> No, the customer does not know that yet (becuse I didn't know) but will soon will.<BR> <BR> Regards,<BR> smbPBX<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/05, <B class="gmail_sendername">Tom Rymes</B> <<A href="mailto:trymes@rymesheating.com">trymes@rymesheating.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm sure that you could use a Snom or Cisco set with a sidecar on it.<BR>However, most people seem to say that the biggest problem with hotels<BR>is the interface to their billing software, which is difficult at<BR>best to make fly with asterisk at this point. <BR><BR>Does the customer know that it will not be a simple "hook the cable<BR>up to the billing server and go" setup with asterisk?<BR><BR>Tom<BR><BR>On Oct 14, 2005, at 6:01 PM, smbPBX wrote:<BR><BR>> Hello: <BR>><BR>> As many of you mayknow, majority of small hotels (200 rooms) use<BR>> Mitel PBXs.<BR>> We have a situation where a customer wants to replace their current<BR>> SX-200 Digital Hybrid PBX with Asterisk. <BR>> As far as the PBX features and functionality are concerned,<BR>> everything is OK. The rub is that their current "swithcboard" is a<BR>> Mitel Superconsole and it is digital; which won't work in Asterisk <BR>> environment.<BR>><BR>> Do any of you have experience with such hotel situations (which I<BR>> suspect are typical) in replacing the Superconsole with an<BR>> alternative switchboard? Any recommendations? <BR>><BR>> Thanks very much...<BR>><BR>> --<BR>> Regards,<BR>><BR>> smbPBX<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Asterisk-Biz mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com">Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com</A><BR>> <A href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz</A><BR>><BR><BR>_______________________________________________ <BR>Asterisk-Biz mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com">Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com</A><BR><A href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz </A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear="all"><BR>-- <BR>Regards,<BR><BR>smbPBX<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Asterisk-Biz mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com">Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>