Ipanema Solutions Blog » Telephony Technologies http://www.ipanemahospitality.com/blog Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:45:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Why are hotels buying new Mitel 200s when Mitel itself offers to trade them in for new 3300s? http://www.ipanemahospitality.com/blog/telephony-technologies/why-are-hotels-buying-new-mitel-200s-when-mitel-itself-offers-to-trade-them-in/ http://www.ipanemahospitality.com/blog/telephony-technologies/why-are-hotels-buying-new-mitel-200s-when-mitel-itself-offers-to-trade-them-in/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:27:08 +0000 Steven Tutino http://www.ipanemahospitality.com/blog/?p=13 I am wondering how many people think purchasing a new Mitel 200 ICP is a dead end investment.  The Mitel 200 has some go forward limitations like the inability to support native SIP trunking.  A lot of hoteliers think VoIP is pie in the sky but others are seeing lowered operating costs. Over 75% of the hospitality telephone systems we install this year will utitlize SIP trunking when the hotel opens which costs fractions of traditional analog or digital TDM trunking.  Are we alone industry or are these numbers normal?

Some brands discourage the Mitel 200 ICP in favor of the Mitel 3300 or open standards solutions from Avaya, Innovation and Cisco.  Other franchisors highly encourage their franchisees to purchase the Mitel 200. What are your thoughts? Are buyers of the Mitel 200 ICP buying a dead end product that is technologicaly obsolete or does the platform have all of the features that smallers properties will ever need?

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