[asterisk-users] FAX t.38 on Asterisk 1.6?

[Arturo Ochoa]

Ok, so it's clear now that this feature is missing on Asterisk, but as
Russell states, it's on the roadmap.

So, Can you guys give an alternate idea on what to do on this scenario:

One customer has this situation:
The headquarters are located on MTY, Mexico. They have 2 landlines on
Edinburgn TX, USA because they have presence on that city. When one person
calls to the landlines on TX, the call goes to MTY. If that call is a FAX
it's answered by asterisk+iaxmodem+hylafax and MTY receives an email with
the FAX on PDF. The problem goes when someone in MTY wants to send a FAX to
some other TX customer. 

At first I suggested that if they have the document on the computer it'll be
easy to use hylafax or even a webportal called AvantFAX. The problem it's
the kind of documents they send are not computer documents... they really
need the FAX machine...

Any ideas on this ??

Thanks....

Ing. Arturo Ochoa N
Electrosystems S RL 
Tel. (656)-6230794

-----Mensaje original-----
De: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] En nombre de Russell Bryant
Enviado el: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:25 AM
Para: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Asunto: Re: [asterisk-users] FAX t.38 on Asterisk 1.6?


On Aug 8, 2008, at 7:39 AM, JR Richardson wrote:

>> Asterisk 1.6 currently has T.38 origination and termination support.
>> It does not yet have fax gateway support.
>>
>> --
>> Russell Bryant
>
> Russell, Can you please clarify what you mean.  I think there is  
> still a bit
> of confusion as to what termination and gateway and Asterisk 1.6 is  
> all
> about, capability, functionality, call flow to what application,  
> library
> requirements, spandsp versioning.....
>
> And when do you think we can expect to see stable solutions for each.


Origination and termination is exactly that.  That means Asterisk is  
either originating the fax, or receiving the fax.  Asterisk is the  
endpoint.  This is supported for both regular fax and T.38 using the  
app_fax module in Asterisk 1.6, which requires spandsp 0.0.5.

Gateway support is the ability to have a fax going through Asterisk as  
analog on one side and T.38 on the other.  This is not yet support,  
but is obviously on the roadmap.  I can't give you an estimation for  
when it will be done and officially supported right now, though.

--
Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.





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