Hospitality - Sangoma Vega Gateways

The hospitality market is facing challenges due to the proliferation of cell phone use. Hotels used to make substantial revenue from phone calls charged to guest rooms. Now that room charge calls are rare, hotels are left with aging equipment that is expensive to maintain. Even though these systems rarely generate revenue, they must be maintained to meet E911 requirements, provide messaging, wake-up calls, and manage room service and other guest requests.

Open source IP-PBX solutions are historically less expensive and easier to maintain than aging PBXs, but the cost of running CAT5 to every room and purchasing new phones is not a realistic or financially attractive option for many hotel operators. The ideal scenario is to utilize the existing phones and wiring to the guest rooms while still delivering new services and features using an IP-PBX.

This configuration is also very well suited for campus environments at corporate parks, colleges and military bases. It can be effective for a Single Building (Figure 5) or in a Campus or Multi-Building configuration