[Asterisk-Users] Alternatives to SpanDSP??

[Steve Underwood]

Why would you expect a bunch of fax modems to work any better than 
spandsp? If spandsp doesn't work reliably your system is very likely broken.

I have had hundreds of complaints about spandsp reliability. I have 
analysed at least 50 or 60 audio logs. I have found maybe 5 or 6 which 
has real spandsp problems. The rest had frame slips. Of the 5 or 6 with 
real problems, most have been fixed in the latest version. I have one 
weird audio log from a new HP combination printer and fax machine that i 
haven't sorted out yet. These HP machines really are total crap. I have 
workarounds in spandsp for several blatently wrong things they do. I 
don't yet know who is at fault with this latest problem.

Regards,
Steve


Jeremy Melanson wrote:

>More like, I already have enough Digium cards, and I don't want purchase
>a bunch of fax/modems and more Digium cards than I alrady have.
>I have a PRI line that I'd like to support high-volume faxing on. I've
>gotten SpanDSP to work with * over the PRI, but I need a more
>reliability.
>That, and I guess I'm probably just being cheap too :-)
>
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>Jeremy
>
>On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 13:15 -0500, Anton Krall wrote:
>  
>
>>Maybe I started the day slow :) but let me see if I undertood correctly.
>>
>>You say that you don't want to rely on having to buy Digums or any other
>>type of cards in oder to tie everything into spandsp and * but you would
>>rather have dedicated PSTN lines with faxes on them?
>>
>>|-----Original Message-----
>>|From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
>>|
>>|I guess I didn't word this right.
>>|It's not that SpanDSP ties up extensions, as it definitely 
>>|doesn't. I was more referring to the standard hardware-based 
>>|solutions out there that need to have a dedicated line for an 
>>|incoming fax. I need the ability to send and receive faxes 
>>|with a good amount of reliability, and would love to integrate 
>>|it with Asterisk. I'm just not keen on needing to buy a bunch 
>>|of Digium TDM cards just to support such a solution.
>>|
>>|Don't get me wrong, SpanDSP is great! I'm just looking for 
>>|something a little more "enterprise-ready". 
>>|
>>|On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:07 -0500, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote:
>>|> I wasn't aware that SpanDSP tied up a bunch of extensions.
>>|> 
>>|> Jeremy Melanson wrote:
>>|>   > I'm trying to see if anyone knows of an alternative solution, 
>>|> commercial or non-commercial, to SpanDSP. I'm specifically looking 
>>|for another software-based, DSP fax that doesn't require me to add a tie up a 
>>|> > bunch of extensions on my PBX.
>>|> > 
>>|> > Has anyone ever seen such an animal, or gotten such it to play nice 
>>|> > with Asterisk?
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>>
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