Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards,

[Doug Lytle]

Olivier Krief wrote:
> 2006/4/18, Doug Lytle <Support at drdos.info <mailto:Support at drdos.info>>:
>
>     Nicholas Kathmann wrote:
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> Please, forgive my ignorance but could you elaborate how your system 
> would be working ?
> I've read a lot about fax and Asterisk but I'm not sure I exactly got 
> it (specially with iaxmodem and hylafax integration).
>
> Do you mean that :
> 1. incoming calls would be routed according callee's extension 
> (extensions are dedicated either to fax or voice applications) and 
> only with that rule ?
I'm in a test environment at the moment, we've got a few clients that do 
large number of faxes.  I'm testing with one of them.

The machine is a Celeron 2.4ghz with 512MB memory, running Mandriva Linux. 

I've installed HylaFAX from source along with iaxmodem and Asterisk. 

iaxmodem is a software modem that uses the IAX protocol and registers to 
Asterisk as an IAX client allowing HylaFAX all the resources of the 
Asterisk PRI or whatever allows connectivity.

HylaFAX's faxgetty program monitors the 23 iaxmodems that I run for 
incoming calls.

On an inbound call (Being sent via our Definity G3) all caller 
information including DID is seen by HylaFAX and I can route to either 
printer/pdf or anything else via the FaxDispatch script.

On an outbound call, HylaFAX sees the 23 iaxmodems as normal modems.

Doug

> 2. you would exclusively connect existing fax machines to SIP ATA's 
> and hope offering users the ability to fax from software applications, 
> would decrease SIP ATA's use inconvenients ?

We are currently trying to reduce the number of fax machines that we 
have.  Hoping to centralize these functions in a multi-function server.  
We don't deal with ATAs.

Doug