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

[trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 18:18 -0400, Tom Rymes wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Lee Howard wrote:
> > If your PRI comes in to a TE405P or somesuch then you can pass fax  
> > DIDs out through another port on the TE405P and out to a T1  
> > faxmodem (such as a Patton 2977) or a T1 channel bank and then to  
> > analog modems.
> 
> Good call, Lee. Unfortunately, we only have a single port Sangoma  
> card in our asterisk server. In order to do what you suggest, I would  
> have to buy a dual port card and a channel bank or T1 modem. Thats  
> more $$$ than is warranted by our fax traffic.
> 
> Also, given reports of problems related to frame-slippage and other  
> weirdness encountered when sending data/fax through Asterisk, I'm  
> reluctant to invest that money. Have you tried this setup yourself?

Cant iaxmodem work by having asterisk bridge the pri channel as needed
(did based routing perhaps) and then have hylafax use iaxmodem as the
modem it uses.  That should result in no additional hardware, which
means testing can happen with little cost to see if it works for you.

As I understand it iaxmodem just acts like a modem, and doesnt actually
do the processing that hylafax does, so the two would work together
instead of one or the other.  I may be wrong on this, but that is the
way it looks to me so far.


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