[Asterisk-Users] Re: OT: Legacy systems / fax

[Bill Michaelson]

Around 1978, when I was consulting to a multinational company in the 
business of agriculture, I witnessed this configuration in their 
communications center in NYC:

A paper tape punch attached to a teletype machine was busily punching 
out a tape that was being spewed into a wastebasket.  Somehow, running 
behind it by several feet of tape, was a paper tape reader on another 
teletype drawing the tape out of the basket, sending the data to 
who-knows-where.  Amazingly, it wasn't getting tangled.  To me, this was 
emblematic of how tradition dies hard...

T.30 will be with us for a while to come.  Wise managers will limit this 
to the outer boundaries of their enterprises wherever practical, ASAP.


From: Jean-Michel Hiver <jhiver at ykoz.net>

Doing a analog (piece of paper) -> digital (scanning process) -> analog 
(modulation over TDM) -> digital (conversion to TDMoIP) -> analog 
(demodulating on the other fax) -> digital (reconstructing the image in 
fax memory) -> analog (printing) conversion doesn't make any kind of 
sense...

It might be great for legacy systems, but it's so not the right way of 
doing it.