[asterisk-users] fax / t38 gateway

[Andrew Joakimsen]

If you are VoIP-only then you need a SIP provider that offers T.38.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Brendan Martens
<brendan.martens at crosscomm.net> wrote:
> I am using 1.6.0.1 and we are going to be pure voip. I know it has
> pass through and termination, but that is useless if I don't have a
> way to transform the analog t.30 to t.38 before it gets to me. That is
> where my confusion lays, is there some way of doing this that I am not
> aware of?
>
> Brendan Martens
>
> On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Jonn R Taylor wrote:
>
>> 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-----
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>> ] On Behalf Of Brendan Martens
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:25 PM
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>> 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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