This is a follow up to an earlier post. Looking for a means to "individualize" incoming FAX, so as to distribute them to the intended recipient. While the PBX is based on Asterisk, it is not possible for me to "enter" the box to modify things, to any great degree. I thank those who mentioned IAXMODEM, earlier, but that seems a no go. Currently, there is a dedicated T1 into the Asterisk box. There is a separate bank of 4 POTS lines going into a FAX server. Looking for a way to assign numbers as "incoming FAX" lines and have them "received" with the incoming number intact. Having these forwarded to one of the analog numbers is a thought, but I am concerned about various issues, data corruption, etc, going that route. Thoughts vary to second T1, with channel bank, "breaking out" some DS0's into a channel bank, or finding a T1/fax board (do they exist?), to go directly into the FAX server (PC/linux based) joe a.
On 6/26/07, Joe acquisto <joea at j4computers.com> wrote:> > This is a follow up to an earlier post. > > Looking for a means to "individualize" incoming FAX, so as to distribute > them to the intended recipient. > > While the PBX is based on Asterisk, it is not possible for me to "enter" > the box to modify things, to any great degree. I thank those who mentioned > IAXMODEM, earlier, but that seems a no go.With all due respect, this project should be handed over to whomever has authorization to administer the Asterisk box. We can tell you how to do it in Asterisk, but if you can't take our advice, our ability to help you will be severely limited. Now, we have many, many fax machines. We have our incoming through PRI, and then redirect to a channel bank. We have no problems with fax reception. When we used a Sangoma card, we did, but now that we're back on Digium hardware, we've been doing well, thus far. Probably had to do with the echo cancellation, but without infinite time to troubleshoot, we just had to get it working. I would not recommend passing fax data across the PCI bus between cards. I'm probably just superstitious, but I wouldn't do it. But it would be very simple to do with just a Dial statement. Basically, just go out and try it. Your business requirements and what you're allowed to do obviously drive where your decision is going to go. If you get stuck, and can't find answers through Google or the Wiki, then ask this list. But you can't expect us to tell you what's going to work in your business when you aren't empowered to follow our advice. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070626/386450f6/attachment.htm
On 6/26/07, Joe acquisto <joea at j4computers.com> wrote:> Thoughts vary to second T1, with channel bank, "breaking out" some DS0's into a channel bank, or finding a T1/fax board (do they exist?), to go directly into the FAX server (PC/linux based) >It looks to me like you have two choices. The first you probably can't do. That is, get a two port board in the Asterisk system with the second T1 going into an Eicon Board in a Hylafax system. Then, you can assign DIDs with whatever web interface you have on this Asterisk system to go to the second T1 port. The second alternative is to get a second T1 and an Eicon card going into a Hylafax Server. This solution has a big monthly expense to it, especially if you aren't fully utilizing all channels on your existing T1. I'm moving towards the first solution being we send out (and receive) large faxes and the IAXModem solution, because of patent issues, is not able to send at the faster speeds. I've received complaints about our slow fax machine. The Eicon card can support the faster transmission.