[Asterisk-Users] Disabled echo canceller because of tone (rx)

Moshe Yudkowsky speech at pobox.com
Fri Jun 13 10:08:30 MST 2003


At 10:04 2003-06-13 -0600, you wrote:
>But we get this message all the time though on normal voice calls and it's
>not because we're calling fax machines or modems.

The tone is put in by long-distance voice network echo cancellers -- calls 
over 400 miles IIRC. This prevents multiple ECs from trying to echo-cancel 
the conversations.

So it's not just a fax/modem tone. It's a Bell-standard telephone-network 
EC tone.

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