[asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Niles Ingalls <niles at atheos.net> wrote:
>
> On May 21, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Sanjay Rajdev wrote:
>
> We are using Asterisk 1.4.13 on FC6 and have a T1 card with 20 DID's.
> We are wanting to use one of the DID's for Fax, is this possible or do we
> have to add some addition Hardware and what is the best way to do this.
> I know that similar thing would have been asked multiple time already, but I
> was not able to find anything that could answer my questions.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sanjay Rajdev
>
>
> I have 3 running installations of Asterisk using IAXmodem and Hylafax. Very
> very reliable, no additional hardware required.
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+IAXmodem
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Hylafax
> Niles
>

Again, that is going to depend on usage.  You may need an additional
server just to handle faxes if you are running many instances as they
are CPU intensive.

If you already have a bunch of single line manual fax machines, then a
T card and a channel bank are the way to go.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro