[asterisk-users] FXO Cards - T38

Steve Underwood steveu at coppice.org
Sat Feb 23 01:29:16 CST 2008


Rob Hillis wrote:
> Not unless you're running CallWeaver or Asterisk 1.6.0-beta4.  Asterisk 
> has had passthrough support for T.38 for a while (somewhere in 1.4 it 
> became available IIRC) but is currently completely incapable of 
> terminating or encoding a fax call to T.38.
>   
I thought * was still not capable for T.38 gateway operation. Doesn't 
beta 4 just added T.38 termination? And, I believe it misses out some 
key elements of doing that properly. Note that T.38 termination is an 
addon, so it can't be used with, say, G.729.
> The only real option available at the moment is to keep one PSTN line on 
> an ATA with an FXO port and T.38 support available and direct calls from 
> the fax machines through to it.  However, I should point out that while 
> I believe this should be possible, I haven't actually tried it myself.
>
>   
Steve




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