[asterisk-users] receive faxes

[David Backeberg]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM, A J Stiles
<asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk> wrote:
> (For my part, I'm actually surprised that nobody came up with a proper
> protocol for encapsulating the stream of zeros and ones that make up a fax
> transmission but rely on the precise timing inherent with a circuit-switched
> network, into something more suitable for sending over a packet-switched
> network.  That would have fixed it good and proper.)

They did. It's called TCP / IP.

It allows sending PDFs, and they can even be encrypted.

Faxing is for people who haven't heard of the internet.