[Asterisk-Users] some EICON Diva 4BRI questions

[Olivier Krief]

2006/4/23, Armin Schindler <armin at melware.de>:
>
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Olivier Krief wrote:
> > 2006/4/21, Armin Schindler <armin at melware.de>:
> > >
> > >
> > > But if you want to forward a call (which was already accepted by
> Asterisk)
> > > to another CAPI application, it is not possible. (Well, Eicon has a
> > > special
> > > driver which can do a lot of CAPI extensions, but I did not try this
> yet).
> > > So if you want to do that, I suggest using just chan-capi for
> receiving
> > > faxes and maybe another application for sending faxes.
> > >
> > > Armin
> > >
> > This is exactly the heart of my question : is it possible to "accept" a
> call
> > with capi-enabled Asterisk, detect it's a fax and "forward" it somehow
> to a
> > hardware-enforced fax application on the same server.
> >
> > Doing that you could get higher fax speeds and reliability and
> interesting
> > Asterisk features.
>
> Why do you think you will get higher fax speeds or reliability?
> There is no difference in receiving a fax over CAPI between chan-capi
> and any fax-software like capi4hylafax. Both use the same CAPI commands
> with the use of the card's fax capabilities.


I thought that receiving fax with Asterisk always meant to use one way or
another, spandsp library.
That's the reason why I thought fax-enabled boards provide higher fax speeds
or reliability.
(I don't mean using spandsp isn't reliable : I mean fax boards are said and
"priced" to be more reliable and it's worth to evaluate the benefit of using
them).

When writing "receiving a fax over CAPI", do you mean "receiving a fax over
CAPI with Asterisk and processing it with spandsp" ?

Regards
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