I have a specific business problem that I'm hoping someone has ideas and/or has already worked out a solution. My application needs to be able to automatically create and issue faxes to many different fax machines. The volume is going to be very high. And it is only about sending faxes and not receiving them. My application is hosted by an ASP but the Linux (Fedora 2) server is mine (dedicated). So the option of having PSTN lines to do faxes is not an option since I don't own nor can put anything in the data center. I found a SIP/VOIP provider that says they do faxing (and I can connect to them using my own device (meaning asterisk or something else if necessary)). Their requirement for faxing to work on their end is to make sure i send them via their voip service using G.711 codec. So I've done alot of research on faxing and asterisk and hylafax but I'm still at a loss. For starters, what is the architecture that I need? my application --> QUESTION MARK??? ----> VOIP Provider ---> PSTN ---> Fax Machine. So first question, what should QUESTION MARK be? Is it just Asterisk or a combination of Asterisk and something like hylafax (fax manager). And depending on that answer, what is the configuration that has to be made on it. Even reference to material that explains the configuration would be very helpful to me at this time. Thanks in advance for the help, J....... --------------------------------- What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060218/739d5a92/attachment.htm
J Poz schrieb:> I have a specific business problem that I'm hoping someone has ideas > and/or has already worked out a solution. > > My application needs to be able to automatically create and issue faxes > to many different fax machines. The volume is going to be very high. And > it is only about sending faxes and not receiving them.[..]> my application --> QUESTION MARK??? ----> VOIP Provider ---> PSTN ---> > Fax Machine.don't use VoIP, but an external mail2fax provider. I am sure everythng else is asking for trouble. I am also positiv, a couple of businesses on this list would love to help you out with this. rgds posde
On Feb 18, 2006, at 11:35 AM, J Poz wrote:> I have a specific business problem that I'm hoping someone has > ideas and/or has already worked out a solution. > > My application needs to be able to automatically create and issue > faxes to many different fax machines. The volume is going to be > very high. And it is only about sending faxes and not receiving them. > > My application is hosted by an ASP but the Linux (Fedora 2) server > is mine (dedicated). So the option of having PSTN lines to do faxes > is not an option since I don't own nor can put anything in the data > center. I found a SIP/VOIP provider that says they do faxing (and I > can connect to them using my own device (meaning asterisk or > something else if necessary)). Their requirement for faxing to work > on their end is to make sure i send them via their voip service > using G.711 codec. > > So I've done alot of research on faxing and asterisk and hylafax > but I' m still at a loss. For starters, what is the architecture > that I need? > > my application --> QUESTION MARK??? ----> VOIP Provider ---> PSTN > ---> Fax Machine. > > So first question, what should QUESTION MARK be? Is it just > Asterisk or a combination of Asterisk and something like hylafax > (fax manager). And depending on that answer, what is the > configuration that has to be made on it. Even reference to material > that explains the configuration would be very helpful to me at this > time. > > Thanks in advance for the help,The missing link might be iaxmodem. It has two interfaces: IAX channel for asterisk, and a serial device (in /dev/) which emulates a faxmodem. Then, fax away using hylafax. I have tried faxing over SIP through a provider (broadvoice) to a coworker's fax on the pstn this way, and it worked. I haven't done any testing in volume, though. So you would have something like: Doc -> hylafax -> iaxmodem -> * -> voip provider -> pstn -> fax machine Phil PS- I suppose if you had multiple SIP accounts with a provider, you could create multiple iaxmodems and do things in parallel (assuming enough bandwidth and cpu). PPS- I hope you're not doing fax-spamming with this set up! ;')