[asterisk-users] fax / t38 gateway

[Brendan Martens]

I'm trying to figure out how to handle our fax line when we switch to  
our asterisk for voice. After a lot of reading and poking about I have  
concluded, as have many others it would seem, that the best thing to  
do is either to have a separate pstn fax line or use some sort of  
internet faxing service rather than try and make faxing work in a way  
it's not meant to over voip lines.

The question I can't seem to find a good answer to is if there is a  
service/software that would allow a DID to be transferred to them and  
then they perform the t.38 gateway/conversion functions to which I can  
connect with asterisk as a t.38 endpoint and originator, or if there  
is a way that I could host that on my own server?

So essentially I am a bit confused that asterisk supports t.38 as an  
endpoint or originator, but there doesn't seem to be a way to convert  
to/from analog for interoperating with "normal" fax machines. I'm sure  
something exists or the code wouldn't have been written into  
asterisk... Can someone point me in the right direction?


Brendan Martens