[Asterisk-Users] Best codec for faxes?

[steve szmidt]

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 08:18 pm, Julio Arruda wrote:
> Steve Underwood wrote:

> 'replace' fax over G.711 by fax over G.711 over IP :-)
> The point being, Fax over VOIP (even using G.711), I don't believe would
> be as reliable as Fax over an ISDN b-channel :-) Better now ?

You're totally right. The advantage of ISDN is lost, from a fax viewpoint, 
largly because the unwieldly Internet don't care about lagging packets etc.

Point to point ISDN is a great dedicated circuit. But it ain't that no more 
once you connect it to the Internet. 
-- 

Steve Szmidt

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