[Asterisk-Users] Hotel Setup?

[Jonathan k. Creasy]

Yeah, I think that would be the right solution.

You could also look at an Epygi Quadro 2x.

It would provide each room with a private lan and one pots line.

-Jonathan
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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sherwood
McGowan
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 9:33 AM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Hotel Setup?

Real quick guys, placing a ATA (such as a sipura SPA3K) somewhere
similar to
a jack (like on the back of the nightstand where you placed the phone)
would
be an easy solution to the problem of using SIP phones. That way
customers
can use the normal "office" type phone or whatever standard phone you
want
in the room.

Message Waiting Indication works great for me, so I don't see that being
an
issue, and billing support is easy, just have each room number set to
the
account code of the user. Outputting to serial port, I don't know about
that, but writing scripts to perform output could be done.

Just my $0.02. Then again, I'm an asterisk Zealot ;-)

Cheers,
SKM

->-----Original Message-----
->From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
->[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
->James Fogg
->Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 9:12 AM
->To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
->Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Hotel Setup?
->
->> I am working with a small inn (under 50 rooms) that is next 
->to a ski 
->> resort.  The inn just had Cat5e Homeruns to each room 
->installed, with 
->> a patch panel in the basement.  Now it's my job to connect 
->each of the 
->> those rooms to the Internet.  I think I have a Cisco switch 
->that I can 
->> do Private VLANS with, however I thought of another solution.
->
->I am working on a voice / data solution for an inn of similar 
->size a few miles from you (I am familiar with your company). 
->Ultimately I had to admit that Asterisk wouldn't work for a 
->hospitality environment for several reasons. The first 
->problem was the phones - placing expensive IP phones in a 
->room is a big risk for guest damage and they are often too 
->complicated for older people to understand. The second 
->problem was the expense of SIP gateways and lack of 
->message-waiting indication support when I tried to design a 
->system based on POTS phones. The third and biggest issue was 
->the call accounting software that nearly all hotels and 
->motels use. Asterisk has no support for serial port SCDR 
->output for call accounting. Hospitality operators need to be 
->able to bill phone usage to the room. A friend and I are 
->working on an Asterisk module to provide this functionality, btw.
->
->In the end, I quoted a traditional NEC phone system with 
->voicemail. It meets their needs better and was about the same price.
->
->> Has anybody seen or does anybody know of a VoIP hardphone that has 
->> router instead of a switch?  I could connect the phone to 
->the router, 
->> give IP addresses based on the phone's MAC, and then the client can 
->> connect thier computer to the phone.  Because each 
->phone/room would be 
->> on a different subnet, they wouldn't be able to see one 
->another.  Then 
->> I could save them 6k on Cisco gear and maybe some headaches?
->
->
->I have no idea what you are trying to achieve here. If you 
->think VLANs somehow provide security you are mistaken.
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