[Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

[Bob Goddard]

On Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 14:54, Tom Rymes wrote:
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> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:09 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards
> > are fax-capable?
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Rymes wrote:
> > > Frankly, I would recommend that you forget about trying to fax with
> > > Asterisk. Buy a good Multitech analog modem and install HylaFAX.
> > >
> > > Use the right tool for the job!!!
> >
> > Asterisk may be able to fax better in the somewhat near
> > future.  One of the things holding up T.38 support is the
> > inability for asterisk to switch codecs on the fly.  I am not
> > saying that is the only thing, just one of the things.  Well
> > 1.2 is supposed to have better support in that regard, which
> > means that work on T.38 can happen in a better way in the future.
>
> This is good news. (I would like to be able to receive faxes reliably
> over our PRI)

It will never happen unless the card has DSPs.