asterisk users - Feb 2006 - Fax to Email with Asterisk and Lucent TNT

Hello,

  I have a Lucent MAX TNT, (DS-3, 672 modem ports, 28 PRIs). I'd like  
to be able to direct an inbound fax call into my TNT, have it answer  
the fax and send the image file over to Asterisk, or some other  
system to deliver to an e-mail address(s).  I'm not sure if I need  
Asterisk to any of the call control or not.  I'd also like to setup a  
print queue and have outbound faxes go to the print queue and  
eventually out the MAX TNT PRIs.   Has anyone setup such a system?   
What would you recommend?

-Matt

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Matthew S. Crocker
Vice President
Crocker Communications, Inc.
Internet Division
PO BOX 710
Greenfield, MA 01302-0710
http://www.crocker.com

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 14:53 -0500, Matthew Crocker
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I have a Lucent MAX TNT, (DS-3, 672 modem ports, 28 PRIs). I'd like  
> to be able to direct an inbound fax call into my TNT, have it answer  
> the fax and send the image file over to Asterisk, or some other  
> system to deliver to an e-mail address(s).  I'm not sure if I need  
> Asterisk to any of the call control or not.  I'd also like to setup a  
> print queue and have outbound faxes go to the print queue and  
> eventually out the MAX TNT PRIs.   Has anyone setup such a system?   
> What would you recommend?
> 
> -Matt
Be careful with this there is a company (J2 iirc) that owns a patent on
doing this, and they have charged people patent usage fees if they
resell this service.  Yeah its a bogus patent (prior art at the very
least), but no one wants to pay the $2M in lawyer fees to fight it, its
cheaper to pay the $1/customer or whatever their license fee is.


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We've setup automatic printing of faxes from asterisk (spool to a net queue
or direct to local printer), use the sendmail capability of emailing to an
executable (alias).  Why send an image over to asterisk from the TNT?

MD

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Fax to Email with Asterisk and Lucent TNT


Hello,

  I have a Lucent MAX TNT, (DS-3, 672 modem ports, 28 PRIs). I'd like to be
able to direct an inbound fax call into my TNT, have it answer the fax and
send the image file over to Asterisk, or some other system to deliver to an
e-mail address(s).  I'm not sure if I need Asterisk to any of the call
control or not.  I'd also like to setup a print queue and have outbound
faxes go to the print queue and  
eventually out the MAX TNT PRIs.   Has anyone setup such a system?   
What would you recommend?

-Matt

--
Matthew S. Crocker
Vice President
Crocker Communications, Inc.
Internet Division
PO BOX 710
Greenfield, MA 01302-0710
http://www.crocker.com

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> I have a Lucent MAX TNT, (DS-3, 672 modem ports, 28 PRIs). I'd like to
be
> able to direct an inbound fax call into my TNT, have it answer the fax and 
> send the image file over to Asterisk, or some other system to deliver to an
> e-mail address(s).  I'm not sure if I need Asterisk to any of the call 
> control or not.  I'd also like to setup a print queue and have outbound
faxes
> go to the print queue and eventually out the MAX TNT PRIs.   Has anyone
setup
> such a system?  What would you recommend?
nvfaxdetect / nvbackgrounddetect, along with spandsp+rxfax/txfax is your 
answer.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-NVFaxDetect

-Dan