[Asterisk-Users] Fax over IP doesn't works

Darren Sessions dsessions at ionosphere.net
Tue Oct 19 09:47:31 MST 2004


Someone should put a bounty on T38. We're using spandsp right now and 
have had success - but it was an absolute pain to get it to work.

On Oct 19, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Steve Underwood wrote:

> Michael Loftis wrote:
>
>> Just my $0.02 but seems to me the VoIP community as a whole needs to 
>> extend SIP (or IAX?) with a special 'fax data' mode wherein the 
>> gateways either act locally as the modem and queue/push bits (not 
>> audio data) for the remote end or transparently bridge them through 
>> in the case of a passthrough call.
>>
>> IMO faxes need to die, but business still loves them.
>>
>> As I said, just my $0.02.
>
> That is such a good idea they did it several years ago. Its called 
> T.38 for H.323 and SIP. IAX doesn't yet have something similar, but 
> its high on the list of things to do.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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