[Asterisk-Users] Digium E1/T1 card with mgetty+sendfax

[Steve Underwood]

Peter Svensson wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
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>>For the project I've used the Eicon DIVA card. It has 8 BRI ports,
>>and for about 25% of the time there are 7 or 8 in use. So we want
>>to replace it with an E1 card. Only issue is, replace it with what?
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>>The idea we have been playing with was to get a Digium E1 card (we
>>already have bought lot of Quad E1 cards :-) and then just put it
>>back to back against Asterisk server. And instead of letting
>>mgetty+sendfax talk to /dev/ttyI[0-7], we use /dev/zap/[0-30].
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>sendfax (and mgetty) requires a modem interface. The zaptel interfaces are 
>raw tdm interfaces. SpanDSP could be made to provide a smartmodem 
>interface but no such code exists yet (as far as I know).
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Such code has been sitting in a near complete state for about 3 or 4 
month, with no time available to finish it :-(

Regards,
Steve