[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and Hylafax, on the same box

[Armin Schindler]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Mike wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I thought I'd check in with people here.  Lets say I wanted to put together
> a Hylafax server, and an Asterisk server on the same box.  And, for the sake
> of making things simple, I wanted to use a single T1 board for both....
>  
> Is this possible?  I see Eicon boards are supported by both software, so
> could I have Hylafax and Asterisk installed on a server with an Eicon card,
> with channels split between Hylafax and Asterisk?  Or even just being
> bridged by Asterisk to Hylafax, somehow?
>  
> Could I get away with just one T1, or would i need 2? (one for each
> software?)
>  
> I know this question is somewhat open-ended, but Im very curious on how to
> make the most popular open source PBX work with what seems to be the most
> popular open source fax server (my perception: I`ve never tried anything
> with Hylafax)

Yes, this is possible of course with the Eicon Diva Server PRI (T1) card.
This card provides a CAPI interface where you can connect Asterisk(with 
chan-capi) and any other CAPI based application like Hylafax.

You can e.g. configure chan-capi to use 20 channels and the remaining 
channels configured in Hylafax.
When you use a Eicon Diva Server with DSPs on board, you don't need to worry 
about CPU power, because fax-receive is done on the DIVA card.
So you don't need to 'bridge' something here, it just works.

Armin