[asterisk-users] fax / t38 gateway

[Brendan Martens]

Indeed I am going for pure voip and trying to figure out how to  
implement t.38, as you suggest.

On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:08 AM, Olivier wrote:

> I think Brendan is asking about endpoints (how to connect fax  
> machines to pure VoIP).
>
> Short answer:
> - you could connect standalone T.38-enabled analog gateways to 1.4,

Like what? I'm not familiar with this tech, I googled around a bit but  
didn't come up with much. I think I just don't know the lingo yet. :  
( Could you point out one of these?

>
> - with 1.6, you can also use an analog board inside a server and  
> connect fax machines to this board.

So basically what you're saying is that to do this (convert the analog  
to t.38) myself I would still need to have analog coming into my  
asterisk server (which makes sense, but doesn't help me avoid paying  
for "normal" phone lines)... Sounds to me like in this situation t.38  
would be purely for getting faxes around on my own asterisk(s) if that  
became necessary.

Which leads me to my other question again, is there some sort of  
internet service that will do the analog to t.38 conversion for me and  
then pass the t.38 on to my asterisk server?


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Andrew you mentioned something about sip providers that support t.38?  
When you say support, do you mean that they have passthrough turned  
on, or they will actually do an analog t.30 to t.38 conversion for  
you? That may be what I'm after... If you, or anyone else, know of a  
provider that does this could you point me in the right direction?

Thank you all for your thoughts.

Brendan Martens