[asterisk-users] fax / t38 gateway

[Jonn R Taylor]

What version of *? Are you going all VOIP for your voice or are you using a T1/E1? *? 

1.4 has t38 pass-through and 1.6 has pass-through and termination, but 1.6 was just release and I would not suggest using it in a production environment unless you can tolerate problem or even outages.

If you are planning on using a T1/E1 then send incoming calls to iaxmodem/hylafax or to an ATA/FXS card. Either works very well.

Jonn 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brendan Martens
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:25 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] fax / t38 gateway

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

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