[asterisk-users] New faxing protocol. Good/Bad ?

[Steve Totaro]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Steve Totaro
<stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Dovid B <asteriskusers at dovid.net> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>
>> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] New faxing protocol. Good/Bad ?
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:54:40AM +0300, Dovid B wrote:
>>>> Hi List,
>>>> I was thinking the other day that even with T.38 there are still some
>>>> issues with faxing. I was thinking of a protocol that instead of just
>>>> sending down the fax tones an ATA or "VOIP fax machine" would get the
>>>> entire fax convert it into some sort of image and pass it down the line
>>>> to the receiving end. I got the idea from RFC2833. Yes I know that fax
>>>> machines send bit by bit and get a conformation on it but maybe this
>>>> would work a bit better. Send the entire "image" over and then get a
>>>> response when it is done. This way if there is issues along the way the
>>>> packets can be re-sent with out any issue.
>>>>
>>>
>>> T.37 (fax over email)?
>>>
>>> --
>> Tzafrir,
>> Through of it but it requires a mail server. I was thinking of something
>> that would work from one fax machine to another. It was just an idea......
>>
>> Dovid
>>
>
> http://mycelery.com/celery_email_machine_email_device_video.php
>
> Maybe throw Callweaver in the mix.....?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>

Ah, looks like T37.  You know, not everything needs to be VoIP or in Asterisk?

Thanks,
Steve Totaro