[asterisk-users] Anyone have a reliable T.38 Solution

[Steve Underwood]

On 01/11/2012 11:16 PM, Olivier wrote:
> 2012/1/11, Steve Underwood<steveu at coppice.org>:
>> On 01/11/2012 03:01 PM, Olivier wrote:
>>> 2012/1/5, Kevin P. Fleming<kpfleming at digium.com>:
>>>> On 01/04/2012 12:25 AM, Matt Darnell wrote:
>>>>> Aloha,
>>>>>
>>>>> We are looking to roll a solution that will have the following network
>>>>> layout:
>>>>>
>>>>> ISDN-PRI<-->    Asterisk<-->    T.38<-->    ATA<-->    Fax
>>>>>
>>>>> Does version 1.8 with the Digium fax driver have this capability?  I
>>>>> like 1.8 because it is a long term support version.
>>>>>
>>>>> What ATA's are people using?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any working solutions would be great!
>>>> What you are looking for is T.38 gateway mode (converting between T.30
>>>> over modems on a TDM circuit and T.38 over UDPTL), and the answer is no:
>>>> Asterisk 1.8 does not have T.38 gateway mode. Asterisk 10 does, and it
>>>> is supported using SpanDSP and res_fax_spandsp. It is not yet supported
>>>> by Digium's Fax for Asterisk commercial FAX module.
>>> Do you have any idea when  Digium's Fax for Asterisk commercial FAX
>>> module could roughly become supported ?
>> Are you really desperate to pay for functionality you can get for free?
> Not yet ;-)))))))))))
> But the increased fax sending speed (14.4 kbs/s says the datasheet but
> I must be too naive to still read datasheets) may be a feature
> interesting for some.
>
> By the way, which spandsp version would recommend for asterisk 10 ?
> spandsp-0.0.6pre18.tgz ?
>
How is 14.4k an increase? Both spandsp and the Digium modules do 14.4k. 
There is nothing the Digium module does which spandsp does not do, and 
the file handling in spandsp is more flexible.

spandsp-0.0.6pre18.tgz is currently the right version to use?

Steve