[Asterisk-Users] Fax over IP doesn't works

Steve Underwood steveu at coppice.org
Tue Oct 19 09:50:52 MST 2004


So what changes with T.38? You still need spandsp to interwork with the 
PSTN. What was so hard about getting spandsp to work? (I'm genuinely 
interested)

Regards,
Steve

Darren Sessions wrote:

> Someone should put a bounty on T38. We're using spandsp right now and 
> have had success - but it was an absolute pain to get it to work.
>
> On Oct 19, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Steve Underwood wrote:
>
>> Michael Loftis wrote:
>>
>>> Just my $0.02 but seems to me the VoIP community as a whole needs to 
>>> extend SIP (or IAX?) with a special 'fax data' mode wherein the 
>>> gateways either act locally as the modem and queue/push bits (not 
>>> audio data) for the remote end or transparently bridge them through 
>>> in the case of a passthrough call.
>>>
>>> IMO faxes need to die, but business still loves them.
>>>
>>> As I said, just my $0.02.
>>
>>
>> That is such a good idea they did it several years ago. Its called 
>> T.38 for H.323 and SIP. IAX doesn't yet have something similar, but 
>> its high on the list of things to do.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steve
>>
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