asterisk users - Oct 2005 - Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

Hi All,

 - I have Digium cards and given that the archives point out the Digium 
cards drop packets does anyone know what hardware would not do this?  
(i.e. Allow me to send outbound faxes)

 - If there is still an issue with the wctdm driver, does anyone know 
which asterisk/spandsp combo would work for sending outbound faxes?

Thanks!

Frankly, I would recommend that you forget about trying to fax with  
Asterisk. Buy a good Multitech analog modem and install HylaFAX.

Use the right tool for the job!!!

Tom

On Oct 11, 2005, at 10:32 AM, JC van der Walt wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> - I have Digium cards and given that the archives point out the  
> Digium cards drop packets does anyone know what hardware would not  
> do this?  (i.e. Allow me to send outbound faxes)
>
> - If there is still an issue with the wctdm driver, does anyone  
> know which asterisk/spandsp combo would work for sending outbound  
> faxes?
>
> Thanks!
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On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Rymes wrote:
> Frankly, I would recommend that you forget about trying to fax with  
> Asterisk. Buy a good Multitech analog modem and install HylaFAX.
> 
> Use the right tool for the job!!!
Asterisk may be able to fax better in the somewhat near future.  One of
the things holding up T.38 support is the inability for asterisk to
switch codecs on the fly.  I am not saying that is the only thing, just
one of the things.  Well 1.2 is supposed to have better support in that
regard, which means that work on T.38 can happen in a better way in the
future.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:09 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards 
> are fax-capable?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Rymes wrote:
> > Frankly, I would recommend that you forget about trying to fax with
> > Asterisk. Buy a good Multitech analog modem and install HylaFAX.
> > 
> > Use the right tool for the job!!!
> 
> Asterisk may be able to fax better in the somewhat near 
> future.  One of the things holding up T.38 support is the 
> inability for asterisk to switch codecs on the fly.  I am not 
> saying that is the only thing, just one of the things.  Well 
> 1.2 is supposed to have better support in that regard, which 
> means that work on T.38 can happen in a better way in the future.

This is good news. (I would like to be able to receive faxes reliably
over our PRI)

Until then, however, I still recommend HylaFAX.

Tom

Tom Rymes wrote:
>(I would like to be able to receive faxes reliably
>over our PRI)
>
>Until then, however, I still recommend HylaFAX.
>  
>
If your PRI comes in to a TE405P or somesuch then you can pass fax DIDs 
out through another port on the TE405P and out to a T1 faxmodem (such as 
a Patton 2977) or a T1 channel bank and then to analog modems.

Lee.

On Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 14:54, Tom Rymes wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> > trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:09 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards
> > are fax-capable?
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Rymes wrote:
> > > Frankly, I would recommend that you forget about trying to fax
with
> > > Asterisk. Buy a good Multitech analog modem and install HylaFAX.
> > >
> > > Use the right tool for the job!!!
> >
> > Asterisk may be able to fax better in the somewhat near
> > future.  One of the things holding up T.38 support is the
> > inability for asterisk to switch codecs on the fly.  I am not
> > saying that is the only thing, just one of the things.  Well
> > 1.2 is supposed to have better support in that regard, which
> > means that work on T.38 can happen in a better way in the future.
>
> This is good news. (I would like to be able to receive faxes reliably
> over our PRI)
It will never happen unless the card has DSPs.