[asterisk-biz] Foip solution

Alex Balashov abalashov at evaristesys.com
Mon Mar 29 12:39:35 CDT 2010


Super G3 will be your undoing with FoIP even if you can get normal <=  
G3 faxing reasonably reliable over T.38.

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On Mar 29, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Rob Rothberg <rrothberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was really the issue. I had zero control over the recipient. It
> was not uncommon for an end point to be using a 15 yo fax machine.
> Someone else above mentioned 95% Success. That might be ok for many
> but for us that would have meant dozens if not hundreds of faxes a day
> didn't make it.  Hopefully there is enough info here now for the
> original poster to understand the issues and decide if t.38 is for  
> him.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 1:16 PM, James Sharp <jsharp at psychoses.org> wrote:
>
>> Rob Rothberg wrote:
>>> Hylafax is reliable, but faxing over IP is not particularly
>>> reliable.  I
>>> used hylafax + asterisk + TDMoE (RedFone FoneBridge 2 which I have
>>> for
>>> sale) to bulk fax thousands of payment due notices every day
>>> without a
>>> glitch, but I was using voice channels on a T-1 to handle the  
>>> faxing.
>>> T.38 really wasn't a practical option when I implemented this  
>>> several
>>> years ago.  Not sure if that has changed at all.  BTW, if you need
>>> someone that really knows his Hylafax, I have an awesome reference
>>> for
>>> someone I found on the Hylafax group who was one of the individuals
>>> doing maintenance on the Hylafax sources.  Used him for 3 years and
>>> he
>>> was always there when I needed him.  He's pretty well versed in
>>> Asterisk
>>> as well.
>>
>> If your end points can do T.38 properly, it works great.  I used to  
>> do
>> tons of T.38 faxing over the public internet as well as across 500+ms
>> VSAT links to customers.  The only problems I ever ran into were fax
>> machines that didn't quite adhere to standards.
>>
>> The customer endpoints were Quintum A200 or A400 boxes and the
>> termination equipment was a Quintum CMS-960.
>>
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