[Asterisk-Users] Hotel Setup?

[kurth at ozonecomputer.com]

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