Thanks guys for your response. I think Fax is going to be a real headache and I will be encouraging where possible to move to a hosted service. Alarm and EFTPOS is likely to move over to GSM/3G or newer broadband as you mentioned David.
Regards Michael Knill On 29 May 2015, at 11:10 pm, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net<mailto:da...@kerr.net>> wrote: For alarm monitoring I use a service http://nextalarm.com<http://nextalarm.com/> and they provided me with what they call a braodband adapter. When I signed up it was a Cisco/Linksys PAP2T with custom configuration, now-a-days it looks like they have their own box. But essentially it takes the analog audio modem signals and converts them to VoIP signals. As the baud rate is fairly low on alarm systems it works well. I have had must less success with faxes. My asterisk box can receive faxes pretty reliably, converts to tiff and emails to me. For sending faxes I have a multi-function printer/scanner/fax that is connected to a PAP2T much like the alarm system. Sending this way is not at all reliable -- I cannot depend on it even if it says fax was sent successfully. I am not sure where in the chain the problem is but as we use fax so rarely now-a-days I am not bothering to troubleshoot. David On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Michael Keuter <li...@mksolutions.info<mailto:li...@mksolutions.info>> wrote: Am 29.05.2015 um 07:33 schrieb Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au<mailto: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<http://www.mksolutions.info/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto: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<mailto:pay...@krisk.org>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto: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.
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