[Asterisk-Users] asterisk and fax over ip - concept

[William Waites]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:28:02PM +0100, Dawid Mielnik wrote:
> 
> Would the t.38 transmission be properly handled by the t.38 supporting end
> points whith mediastrem passing through Asterisk ? (dont have much
> experience with t.38) Has anyone ever tried anything similar / different /
> wierder to try and deal with fax over ip and Asterisk ? Any suggestions and
> comments are welcome.

What I would do i this situation is work out a fax <--> email 
gateway. Best case this could be done entirely with software
on the asterisk box, worst case a faxmodem hairpinned into an
fxs card using hylafax. Instead of a fax machine, the people
could have a scanner, and they would send their fax as an
email attachment. Likewise recieved faxes could be sent directly
to a printer, or to an email address, or even stored and made
accessible on a webserver...

Cheers,
-w
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