asterisk users - Jul 2003 - VoIP in hotels

Our company can offer VoIP to premises and domestic users and bill the 
premises as a whole. We need something to enable the hotel owner to bill 
each guest in a hotel in real time. What solutions do exist presently?

(PS: Our radius (and every telephony equipment outside the hotel) does not 
recognise which room in the hotel initiated the international (VoIP) call, 
so that's the main problem - Only the hotel's PMS knows which guest
phoned,
so with our current setup we cannot bill the individual guest, but the hotel 
as a whole)

Jonathan

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Jonathan Young wrote:
> Our company can offer VoIP to premises and domestic users and bill the 
> premises as a whole. We need something to enable the hotel owner to 
> bill each guest in a hotel in real time. What solutions do exist 
> presently?
Asterisk can certainly do exactly what you need.
>
> (PS: Our radius (and every telephony equipment outside the hotel) does 
> not recognise which room in the hotel initiated the international 
> (VoIP) call, so that's the main problem - Only the hotel's PMS
knows
> which guest phoned, so with our current setup we cannot bill the 
> individual guest, but the hotel as a whole)

First drop RADIUS like a prom dress and either create or find a real 
billing platform.  You simply need a however many  T400Ps and FXS 
channel banks that can interface into your existing hotel room phones. 
Then with a proper billing platform your system will automagicly know 
exactly which FXS port made that call and would make the connection to 
which room made the call all in real-time.

This is very simple, no need to over complicate the matter with a 
useless technology like RADIUS.



Jeremy McNamara