VoIP provider for a 300 room Hotel

This would be very easy to do with your Mitel PBX, i have used these intensively at the UK Marriott hotels, these were an addition that whitbread introduced to the hotels, all you need to do is use a provider that supports multiple connections using one account. I personally use www.voip.co.uk for all my SIP telephony needs, and they are very reliable, and calls to foriegn  locations are of superior quality to other UK VoIP services i have tried, it seems that have done thier homework in thier interconnect department.

you dont state where in the world you are, and this would make a difference to which provider i would recommend. but all the above is relevant to a UK hotel.

Regards

Stuart Buchanan

I would pay a lot of attention to the router you use for the quest internet as you would most likely experience problems sharing VoIP & Data as you could not gaurantee that the voip traffic would be prioritised. i would however invest in a cisco 800, 1700, 1800 or 2600 series router as you can minimise the problems by using Rate limiting and policing to reserver traffic for VoIP calls.

I personally would use VoIP for 100% of my telephony calls, but that is just me, if you put a lot of work into the backbone of your network you can make VoIP very reliable, as i have been using asterisk for 3 years or so and it took me a year to 18 months to get the system rock solidly reliable, but i will be blunt and say that it is only down to Cisco phones & Routers that this has been possible, since the service operates exactly like a normal BT line

 Sorry I did not include that the Hotel is located in the U.S..  I should also include that the reason that I am only planning to use the IP for LD only is because this is a test to determine if it is a financial win for the Hotel.