Am 29.05.2015 um 07:33 schrieb Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au>:
> Hi group > > Not sure if anyone is aware but Australia is currently undergoing a very > significant broadband refresh. This refresh is replacing all copper based > services with fibre and other technologies and will significantly impact all > sites with current analogue services such as Fax, EFTPOS, Alarm etc. > > Obviously there is significant opportunity here for the Astlinux appliance of > which I intend to make full use of. I am however a little concerned about > what to do with existing analogue services in particular fax lines. > > Just wondering what options are generally used outside this country for > providing these services other than a hosted solution. Does T.38 passthrough > work ok with Asterisk? > > Thanks in anticipation. > > Regards > Michael Knill Hi Michael, a similar change is ongoing in Germany and other parts of Europe. The "Deutsche Telekom" (ex-monopolist and main telco) will change all analogue and ISDN (we have a lot here) to All-IP until 2018. They don't REPLACE copper everywhere, but new locations will be installed with new technologies . Receiving faxes directly in Asterisk with SpanDSP (and sending them as PDF via email) works quite good in my experience. Some hardware faxes work fine with ATAs (or media-gateways like Bero*fix) too, but some have some issues with sending faxes. For electronic payment systems (here mostly ISDN), you'll also need media-gateways. Alarm systems can be quite tricky, but at this point in time the telco make exceptions for those lines. Michael http://www.mksolutions.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
