[Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !

[Jeff Gustafson]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:19 -0500, Rich Adamson wrote:
> I believe the TDM2400 has the capability of doing on-card fxo->fxs data 
> flows (without hitting the pci bus), but that function has not yet been 
> implemented. Its basically "required" to support faxes in an analog 
> environment. When it is implemented, that card should work. The TDM400 
> card will not work in 99% of the deployments.
> 
> Faxing via T1 cards is known to work in a fairly large number of 
> deployments, but its likely to be highly dependent on exactly where the 
> fax machine is located relative to *. Eg, incoming pstn fax via a T1 
> that is expected to be switched to a sip ata adapter has "lots" of 
> technical and specific infrastructure dependencies that have to be 
> addressed by the implementor / engineer. The plug-n-play approach will 
> have a very high failure rate.

	What about:

T1 card -> * -> different T1 card -> channel bank -> fax

	or

T1 card -> * -> FXS card -> fax

	Is the rule as long as the fax doesn't go over an IP network, then
faxing should work?

			...Jeff
> 
> 
> Anton Krall wrote:
> > I must agree with you. I too buy Digium cards because I want to support the
> > development of asterisk. Asterisk is a great product but digum cards are a
> > pain, they say they don't support faxing but a lot of people that are
> > implementing asterisk "demand" or "need" faxin as a day to day service on
> > their PBX's.
> > 
> > Sad to see that faxing is nearly impossible on digium cards. To me is like
> > saying "here you have a great car but.. It cannot handle a car stereo" :(
> >  
> > 
> > |-----Original Message-----
> > |From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> > |[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> > |Tony ROBIN
> > |Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:01 PM
> > |To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > |Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !
> > |
> > |
> > |I am so fed up with Digium cards. My company first owned a 
> > |TE410P, I installed it in a Dell server and "enjoyed" its 
> > |instability (we bought it months before Digium warned about 
> > |the incompatibility issues). Then we switched to a TE411P for 
> > |the hardware echo cancellation. Now we want to receive fax (< 
> > |20/day) on it and guess what ? Since April 2006 (again a few 
> > |months after we bought our brand new card), "officially, fax 
> > |communications is not supported with Digium cards" ( 
> > |http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+fax ).
> > |Of course, I should have guessed that it is far too much to 
> > |ask to a $2495 card ! Is the "fax" extension in Asterisk just 
> > |there to push us to the competing products ?
> > |
> > |We hesitated to buy another Digium card after the problems 
> > |with TE410P, but I told myself it was nice to support Asterisk 
> > |by buying some Digium cards. Now Digium make us regret our 
> > |buys and a disappointed customer is a lost customer forever... 
> > |Too sad...
> 
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