asterisk users - Jun 2004 - Re: OT: fax obsoleted? Was: Re: Fax via email (Steve Underwood)

Old managers will change its the LaLawyershat don't
change.  Every dam law office that I been in has at
least one fax machine that is constantly printing
something out.  But to say fax is dead is an
understatement.
AT&T said that about teletype service, you know 50 -
300 baud service, years ago and then one day they
noticed that traffic across their teletype
seservicetarted growing.  

If anyone is going to develop fax fufurtherthey should
look into T.38.  All the big VoVoIPahardwareendors are
developing or have developed T.38 on their gateways. 
A couple examples:  CiCiscond NuNuera- Even this
little poky cocompanyalled InInnomedias developing it
for their SIP based ATATAs

Kurt 


		
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On Tuesday 15 June 2004 08:29, Kurt wrote:
> Old managers will change its the LaLawyershat don't
> change.  Every dam law office that I been in has at
> least one fax machine that is constantly printing
> something out.  But to say fax is dead is an
> understatement.
> AT&T said that about teletype service, you know 50 -
> 300 baud service, years ago and then one day they
> noticed that traffic across their teletype
> seservicetarted growing.
>
> If anyone is going to develop fax fufurtherthey should
> look into T.38.  All the big VoVoIPahardwareendors are
> developing or have developed T.38 on their gateways.
> A couple examples:  CiCiscond NuNuera- Even this
> little poky cocompanyalled InInnomedias developing it
> for their SIP based ATATAs
Have ye a keyboard problem?  :-)

-A.

Kurt wrote:
>Old managers will change its the LaLawyershat don't
>change.  Every dam law office that I been in has at
>least one fax machine that is constantly printing
>something out.  But to say fax is dead is an
>understatement.
>AT&T said that about teletype service, you know 50 -
>300 baud service, years ago and then one day they
>noticed that traffic across their teletype
>seservicetarted growing.  
>
>If anyone is going to develop fax fufurtherthey should
>look into T.38.  All the big VoVoIPahardwareendors are
>developing or have developed T.38 on their gateways. 
>A couple examples:  CiCiscond NuNuera- Even this
>little poky cocompanyalled InInnomedias developing it
>for their SIP based ATATAs
>
>Kurt 
>  
>
All joking/justifiable venom aside, lawyers fit my second category of 
FAX users perfectly - lots of markup to pass around, and lots of 
documents that need a signature.

The next major round of updates to the fax stuff in spandsp should 
complete the core functions. T.38 is the next step. I build the FAX 
machine mostly as a platform for fax<->e-mail interface and T.38

Regards,
Steve