[Asterisk-Users] How does Vonage support fax machines?

[Lee Howard]

Deon wrote:

>My boss is insisting we support fax, and I keep telling him that Fax over
>IP is very unreliable and not recommended and his immediate come-back is
>"Vonage does it." and it's very hard to figure out how.
>
>I don't think Vonage does T.38, the Linksys/Sipura units they're using
>doesn't support T.38 to my knowledge. 
>
>That means they have to be using G.711Ulaw to send faxes. But how do they
>compensate for packet loss/jitter/etc.
>  
>

They rely upon the resiliance of the fax endpoints... which means that 
you will have great success with resiliant endpoints and high-quality 
connections and you'll have fair-to-poor success with anything else.

Lee.