I agree with Steve on this, am piloting Spandsp 0.0.2pre15 on asterisk 1.0.7 with a TE405p, euroisdn. Fedora Core 2, kernel 2.6.9. Running on an old Dell Optiplex desktop PIII 450mhz with 256mb ram. Takes on average 350 faxes / day with just under 1% failed faxes. I define a failed fax as one with a filesize of 8bytes or won't render to pdf. On the strength of the pilot I am planning to install it to production at another site that takes approx 800 faxes per day.
Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Alternatives to SpanDSP?? > Why would you expect a bunch of fax modems to work any better than > spandsp? If spandsp doesn't work reliably your system is very likely broken. > > I have had hundreds of complaints about spandsp reliability. I have > analysed at least 50 or 60 audio logs. I have found maybe 5 or 6 which > has real spandsp problems. The rest had frame slips. Of the 5 or 6 with > real problems, most have been fixed in the latest version. I have one > weird audio log from a new HP combination printer and fax machine that i > haven't sorted out yet. These HP machines really are total crap. I have > workarounds in spandsp for several blatently wrong things they do. I > don't yet know who is at fault with this latest problem. > > Regards, > Steve > > > Jeremy Melanson wrote: > > >More like, I already have enough Digium cards, and I don't want purchase > >a bunch of fax/modems and more Digium cards than I alrady have. > >I have a PRI line that I'd like to support high-volume faxing on. I've > >gotten SpanDSP to work with * over the PRI, but I need a more > >reliability. > >That, and I guess I'm probably just being cheap too :-) > > > >----- > >Jeremy > > > >On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 13:15 -0500, Anton Krall wrote: > > > > > >>Maybe I started the day slow :) but let me see if I undertood correctly. > >> > >>You say that you don't want to rely on having to buy Digums or any other > >>type of cards in oder to tie everything into spandsp and * but you would > >>rather have dedicated PSTN lines with faxes on them? > >> > >>|-----Original Message----- > >>|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>| > >>|I guess I didn't word this right. > >>|It's not that SpanDSP ties up extensions, as it definitely > >>|doesn't. I was more referring to the standard hardware-based > >>|solutions out there that need to have a dedicated line for an > >>|incoming fax. I need the ability to send and receive faxes > >>|with a good amount of reliability, and would love to integrate > >>|it with Asterisk. I'm just not keen on needing to buy a bunch > >>|of Digium TDM cards just to support such a solution. > >>| > >>|Don't get me wrong, SpanDSP is great! I'm just looking for > >>|something a little more "enterprise-ready". > >>| > >>|On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:07 -0500, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote: > >>|> I wasn't aware that SpanDSP tied up a bunch of extensions. > >>|> > >>|> Jeremy Melanson wrote: > >>|> > I'm trying to see if anyone knows of an alternative solution, > >>|> commercial or non-commercial, to SpanDSP. I'm specifically looking > >>|for another software-based, DSP fax that doesn't require me to add a tie up a > >>|> > bunch of extensions on my PBX. > >>|> > > >>|> > Has anyone ever seen such an animal, or gotten such it to play nice > >>|> > with Asterisk? > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >Asterisk-Users mailing list > >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
