[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 Fax

[Al lists]

Guys!
what i was looking here was a simple hint/recommendation for installing
IaxModem and Hylafax.
Let me try it myself and see how feasible this solutions is.


On Jan 1, 2008 5:02 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:

> Jonn R Taylor wrote:
> > I have always said that if some one said it can't be done, they did not
> try hard enough.
> >
> > FYI... I love this.
> > Ben Franklin quote:
> >
> > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
> Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
> >
> As the person behind the tools you are relying on, I can say you haven't
> tried hard at all. You are just lucky, and almost certainly just being
> very reliant on the majority of your FAXes using ECM mode, and retrying
> a lot.
>
> Trying hard for FAX over IP means implementing T.37, or at least T.38.
> These are engineered solutions, not pot luck. Your present arrangement
> assumes G.711 (not available a lot of the time), no signal manipulation
> in the system beyond your controls (getting rarer and rarer), a very
> crude network doing nothing to improve voice quality (should be getting
> rarer too), limited packet loss (which is truly pot luck over the
> internet, which you say you use), and a few other magic qualities.
>
> A number of people claim solid FAXing results across VoIP paths, like
> they've achieved some engineering breakthrough. The claims tend to
> evaporate under closer inspection.
>
> Steve
>
>
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