September 29, 2023

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Hotel Phone System VoIP Replacement

Hotel Phone System VoIP Replacement



Hotel Phone System VoIP Replacement. 

Hotel Phone System should be a must for most hotels or motels, which has been using Analog Phone System(Analog PBX) in past decades. 

There were some technical and financial issues if swifting to IP-PBX:

  • 911 service
  • IP-phone more expensive than analog hotel phone
  • Ethernet cable running
  • Billing System

Solution for replacement:

  • e-911 is supported 
  • VoIP gateway
  • Sharing same Ethernet cable with IPTV
  • A2billing Module for IP-PBX

Therefore, you could build a PBX for hotels or motels if you are the owner 

 

How to Build an Enterprise-class Phone System?

 


Analog VoIP Gateway For Hotel Phone System

IP phone is recommended because many functions can work only on IP phone, but IP phone still expensive than analog hotel phone.

Alternatively, hotels or motels can use VOIP FXS gateway instead.

In addtion, no need to run Ethernet cable.

Hotel Phone System VoIP Replacement


Software for For Hotel Phone System

You should consider Issabel or FreePBX first.

Issabel with very friendly Web console and almost all modules are free.

In constrast,  you need to pay for some commercial modules to FreePBX.


A2billing Module for IP-PBX

A2billing is not free, you can go to asterisk2billing.org for details


Free IP PBX solutions:

How to Build an Enterprise-class Phone System?
PBX on Raspberry Pi

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