[asterisk-users] receive faxes

[Benny Amorsen]

A J Stiles <asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk> writes:

> (For my part, I'm actually surprised that nobody came up with a proper 
> protocol for encapsulating the stream of zeros and ones that make up a fax 
> transmission but rely on the precise timing inherent with a circuit-switched 
> network, into something more suitable for sending over a packet-switched 
> network.  That would have fixed it good and proper.)

It is called T.37. However, asynchronous protocols like T.37 are a bad
match for the expectations people have of faxes.


/Benny