[Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

[Lee Howard]

On 2004.06.18 08:10 Klaus-Peter Junghanns wrote:
> better send the EUR 10k (not $10k... :)  ) to the author of spandDSP.
> Nobody needs HylaFAX for receiving faxes.

Firstly, I'm not just talking about receiving faxes.

If my choices are between HylaFAX and spandsp and if I want outbound 
queueing and a client-server interface for networked usage, then 
spandsp will not cut it alone.

So yes, anyone who wants these features will need to use HylaFAX.  And 
to use HylaFAX with Asterisk currently one must send the fax calls to 
an FXS port and then to a HylaFAX-controlled modem.

This is not a pretty configuration, I completely agree.  And, I 
completely agree that there are a myriad of beautiful ways to do this, 
in theory.  But the coding does not exist for those to be reality.  So 
unless someone wants to code it or pay to have it coded, then those who 
want outbound queueing and a client-server interface must put up with 
the cumbersome configuration.

Furthermore, even if you assumed that spandsp was as stable as HylaFAX, 
there is a vast feature-set difference between them as far as the 
faxing itself goes.  Steve has already made it clear that he sees no 
future in fax, and that he does not intend to bridge that feature-set 
gap at all.

So, show me a T.38 channel driver for Asterisk.  And if you think that 
using t38modem is ugly, then show me a T.38 driver for HylaFAX.

Lee.