[Asterisk-Users] Sending faxes and call accounting

[brian at txshirts.com]

We found that the TDM400 did not get along with our Brother fax machine.
We wound up just putting the fax direct to PSTN.  We also could not get
our Hayes modems to work for faxing with * and we also had a miserable
time with SpanDSP.  I basically came to the conclusion that faxing over
VOIP was not functional and that the benefits of * outweighed this
limitation.
 
We were however, able to get a credit card terminal to run through a
FXO/FXS port combination.  We had to put it in pulse dial mode and add a
1 to the number.  No idea why, but that magic combo works.
 

Brian Greul 
Texas Shirt Company 
www.txshirts.com 
713-802-0369 / 713-861-6261 (fax) 

 

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From: Chris Mason (Lists) [mailto:lists at masonc.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:06 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Sending faxes and call accounting



In the Asterisk system I am testing for implementation at a small luxury
resort, there are four fax machines that the guests can use for sending
and receiving faxes. Because they require confidentiality, we cannot use
hylafax or other method than a stand alone fax.

I would just connect these faxes to the PSTN lines directly but we would
then have call accounting issues as the calls would not appear in the
CDRs and with long distance costing from $1/min upwards, it could get
costly quickly.

How reliably can I do an analogue in/out connection with call
accounting? I am using TDM400 cards or an Adtrans 600 channel bank.

 

Thanks

 

Chris

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