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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carl Wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>>Hi
Jeff,<BR>>I live in Provo and I think I understand the application you're
<BR>>referring to. Some folks in my neighborhood have been getting to
be the <BR>>beta testers for these cool new fiber links that the city is
supposed to <BR>>be laying out. If I only lived a few blocks over, I
would be able to <BR>>get one too. Darn. Anyway, I've been
following this thread, and I'm <BR>>wondering if an alternative might be to
provide some sort of fax jack on <BR>>the hardware you provide the customer
that your network could notice and <BR>>then treat differently from regular
voice data?<BR><BR>>An even better alternative would be if asterisk could
recognize a fax <BR>>machine on the end of the line and use a different
protocol or codec <BR>>that would work with faxes. It sounds like some of the
contributors to <BR>>this thread were saying this is possible. But I'm
not sure--I'm pretty <BR>>new to asterisk and VoIP in general, so I could be
wrong.<BR><BR>>Carl</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good thoughts Carl. The device we are currently
using has 2 analog (POTS) ports that carry traffic that is converted to IP
as well as 8 10/100 ports and a 100MB fiber uplink. It may be possible to treat
one of the analog ports differently and use the proper codec for that traffic.
We have other alternatives for fax traffic, but not associated with *. I am
really hoping * can play a role in our project. The citywide expansion of the
project looks more imminent and promising than ever.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Again, I apologize for subverting the original
intent of this thread.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>