[Asterisk-Users] Fax pass-throught.

Alessandro Ren alessandro.ren at opservices.com.br
Thu Dec 2 10:18:44 MST 2004


    Steve,

how would I make transparent for the user ti send a fax via a voip 
channel? I could not figure this out on your site.
    Thansk Steve.

Steve Prior wrote:

> Alessandro Ren wrote:
>
>>
>
>>     I've found the fax extention setting, but this is not what I want 
>> to do. I'd like to dial from the line on the other side of the IAX 
>> channel to a fax, to cut long distance costs, and send a FAX from the 
>> source IAX channel. Like bellow:
>>
>>     
>> source                                                             
>>                                                          destination
>>      FAX --- Asterisk  ------- internet ------- Asterisk ------- 
>> external line ----- PSTN ------  FAX
>
>
>
> I haven't done this, but I've heard that faxing through a voip connection
> is problematic.  Have you considered the possibility (if you control both
> Asterisk installations in your diagram) that you could fax to a virtual
> fax on the source Asterisk system which would capture to a file, email or
> file transfer the image to the other Asterisk box which would then 
> dial out
> and send to the final destination?  This assumes your source and 
> destination
> actually have to be real fax machines, otherwise you have even more 
> options.
>
> Check out:
> http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000152.html
>
> and see if it gives you any ideas.
>
> Steve
>
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