[Asterisk-Users] Fax via email

[Steve Underwood]

Darren Nickerson wrote:

>Steve,
>
>HylaFAX supports 1D MH, 2D MR, and 2D MMR.
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The last time I looked (a few months ago) it supported those file 
formats, but only supported 1D transfers on the wire.

>ECM is new in HylaFAX, but already seems more robust than the implementation
>one finds in most consumer-grade data+fax modems.
>
>As for the tiny fraction that support ECM... well if tiny fraction means
>"damn near most of 'em", then I'd say you're about right. Heck, 30-40% of
>them even support V.34 these days (for which ECM and MMR are prerequisites).
>Our customer send and recieve hundreds of thousands of faxes daily, and the
>great majority of them are ECM error-corrected.
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The last time I checked on a big FAX server, only a few percent of the 
calls used anything but basic 9600bps non-ECM operation. When I look in 
the shops, hardly any of the FAX machines - other than the low selling 
high end laser models - support anything fancy. If you are dealing 
purely with FAXes between big companies, most of the machines you 
encounter probably support the fancy features. In the general case, they 
don't.

>I'll admit, these numbers are more representative of the US and Europe than
>other regions, but still, 'tiny fraction' is underselling it just a wee bit
>;-)
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Asia is generally ahead of Europe and the US in buying fancy telecoms 
kit. However, our much higher penetration of broadband is probably 
killing FAX more quickly here. :-)

Regards,
Steve