[Asterisk-Users] Hotel Setup?

[Michael Welter]

Have you seen the 3Com LAN-switch-in-a-wall-jack device?  It's a four 
port device that could also be used for the guest's PC.  It can supply 
PoE to the phone using a wall wart or PoE on the incoming LAN circuit.

You'll need some logic between Asterisk's management interace and the 
property management system's (PMS) telephone interface.  The PMS will 
expect call detail to be received in real time.

Depending on the PMS, outside calling is switched on during checkin and 
switched off upon checkout.  Some PMS restrict toll calls if non-adults 
occupy the room.  Also, some PMS have certain codes that the maids (and 
supervisors) dial from the room to indicate availability.  And the staff 
need to be aware of any 9-1-1 calls.

You'll have to be able to empty a room's voice mailbox upon checkin. 
And some properties want the guest's name in the caller id.

So it's not simply putting a SIP phone in the room...



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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