George Pajari wrote:
What's a poor user who wants to use Asterisk as a PRI PBX to do? Get a channel bank to support one fax? I don't think so. It's hard to sell Asterisk/Digium as a serious alternative to Nortel with these embarrassments.
Yeah, well, right now the only options are to do just that, a channel bank just for the fax machines/modems... or run a T1-capable fax machine/modem connected to another port on the incoming T1 card... or I guess have analog phone lines brought in from the telco just for the sake of the fax machines/modems.
Yeah, it seems pretty silly to have a T1 with plenty of available channels, but not be able to use them for fax and so needing to order in analog lines to accomplish the task.
I do all three. I have offices where I've got a T1 fax modem chained to the TE405P, offices where I use a channel bank, and offices where I have to bring in additional analog lines from the telco just for the sake of the faxes. It makes fax "channels" pretty expensive in comparison to voice channels.
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