Faxing does indeed work on Asterisk with Digium (or any other hardware). SpanDSP is the typical software solution for this. I use this solution with a Digium PRI card and it works great.
However, my understanding is SpanDSP does not scale and can not receive more than one or two faxes at a time. I have been told this but have not tested it personally. John On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 13:31 -0400, Dave Donovan wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a customer considering using Asterisk to receive a large number > of faxes, with bursts of 12-15 concurrent receive operations. I've > never used it much for faxing. He has a somewhat modest box so I'm > somewhat concerned. > > I can only assume that since the fax work is being done by a software > DSP that this creates a fair bit of CPU load. Am I correct? Is it > any more than running an IVR, for instance? We're using a T1/PRI and > with a Digium card so no wacky attempts at using VOIP, it's pure TDM. > > I'd be grateful to hear anyone's experience on load issues or opinions on > rxfax. > > Dave
