Bill Michaelson a écrit :
I can appreciate the desire to avoid reconfiguring existing hardware,
but that is part and parcel of what we are discussing: reconfiguring
hardware. Without further specification, it has no bearing on how to
preserve application behavior, which is what we are trying to
accomplish with this discussion.
I don't wish to second-guess your analysis of the business
requirements - you are the authority - but your initial post expressed
a desire to move toward an Asterisk configuration as one of your
goals. Toward that end, development of an appropriate dialing plan
ultimately must happen, and I would think if done properly, would not
change dialing patterns or extension numbering unless this is what you
desired.
Exactly what I was thinking. If Asterisk is to replace the nortel
hardware some day, it does need to be doing some signaling. Plus, on a
stable 10ms link, faxes should be really no big deal (providing you use
ulaw / alaw)...
I must agree that fax and modem performance is problematic, but here
again, this would be an issue anyway when you transition completely to
Asterisk, as you implied about your long-term plan. So perhaps now is
the time to address this matter.
In a way it sucks that Asterisk doesn't support "modem over ip" type
data, but on the other hand:
Doing a analog (piece of paper) -> digital (scanning process) -> analog
(modulation over TDM) -> digital (conversion to TDMoIP) -> analog
(demodulating on the other fax) -> digital (reconstructing the image in
fax memory) -> analog (printing) conversion doesn't make any kind of
sense...
It might be great for legacy systems, but it's so not the right way of
doing it.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel.
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