[asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

[Olivier]

2008/5/22 Gordon Henderson
<gordon+asterisk at drogon.net<gordon%2Basterisk at drogon.net>
>:

> On Thu, 22 May 2008, Benny Amorsen wrote:
>
> > "Steve Totaro" <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> writes:
> >
> >> Then check out Hylafax and IAXmodem.  Hylafax has alot of client apps
> >> too.  As I said before, it is CPU intensive, so you may need separate
> >> machines to handle fax.  A direct crossover cable for network is the
> >> best to eliminate any latency.
> >
> > If you run iaxmodem on the Asterisk server, you can use something like
> > termnetd to provide a virtual serial port to Hylafax over the network.
> > Then latency, jitter, and packet loss becomes much less of a problem.
>
> Something that's always confused me - IAXmodem is built on spandsp. RxFAX
> is also built on spandsp. RxFAX gets one step closer to the data stream
> (no copper/IP in the way), so why are people using (& suggesting) Hylafax
> over RxFAX?

I would say to store incoming faxes ...
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