[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 and Fax

[Steve Underwood]

On 11/03/2009 04:25 AM, Thomas Kenyon wrote:
> Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>    
>> Lee Howard wrote:
>>      
>>> I've heard of people who go to casinos and come home with a couple
>>> thousand bucks winnings, too.  But the truth is that invariably the vast
>>> majority of people who gamble don't win.
>>>
>>> http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf
>>>
>>> Everyone wants to see if they're lucky.  The smart ones, however, don't
>>> trust luck.
>>>        
>> FAX over SIP does not necessarily mean FAX over VOIP. FAX over SIP can
>> also describe T.38, which is not as much of a gamble as FAX over VOIP :-)
>>
>>      
> True, although I've yet to find a provider in this country (UK) that
> supports T.38.
>
> He may be better off porting the number to a fax2email service (although
> ime they are worth play testing first before you put any real work on
> them, eg. recently I've found one that doesn't support Fine Print or
> higher res faxes).
>
> AFAICT, to get a (real) fax machine using T.38, you either need to buy
> one that already supports it (never seen one, but I am assured they
> exist), Buy an ATA that supports it, or move to callweaver.
>
>    
T.38 FAX machines do exist, although they are rare. A number of high end 
office machines support T.38, or have a T.38 option. There are small FAX 
machines from Sagem which support T.38.

Steve