What model should I be looking for?
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:33:27 -0400, Tony Graziano wrote: > Several things to bring up... > > Not a "great idea" to try to separate voice/fax calls. Using separate DID's > would be better. > Use a Patton PRI gateway, they work tremendously well. You can take certain > DID numbers and re-route to a FXS gateway, which could in turn be used to > dial a Multi-tech digit finder (rebroadcasts digits) connected to a fax > finder, giving you a diskless fax method (emailed as pdf). Patton has a > strong dial plan and rule execution function. At the same time, FXS ports > could be used for outbound faxing. > Easier still... host the faxing somewhere else. Noone seems to be able to > properly support t.38 yet, but if it comes in over PRI, you ought to handle > it as t.38 as far as you can. > We used to have fax to did over a siptrunk, but then the ITSP kept breaking > it. > >>>> "[email protected]" > NaN. 08/11/09 4:26 PM >>> > I'm hoping someone on this list can help clear some things up for me. > I purchased the eBook and have read everything I can find online but faxing > is still not clear to me. > > We've had good results testing combined voice/fax calls to DIDs using an > asterisk flavor. However, none of the asterisk flavors give me the > redundancy that I'm looking for while not having to get into complex > environments such as opensips and other tools, which is where I was > heading. We're still using asterisk for other things but am looking at this > project to perhaps move over to. > > What I need is to offer my users both voice and faxing to the same DID. I > obviously don't want to hurt the voice quality and have read that sipxecs > isn't a great believer in combining both. Fine, I agree. I'm more than > willing to have fax calls routed to a fax server. However, I'm not able to > find enough information on how to go about this, what I need, etc. > > To begin with, I'll be using a PRI to SIP gateway in front of sipxecs. I've > been thinking about buying a used AS5350 or MC3810 to trial this system out > as these are so cheap used. > > I wondered if I could buy a gateway which would be able to recognize a > voice or fax call, if voice, send it to sipxecs, if fax, send it to my fax > server, along with the DID info so that the fax server can convert the fax > then email it to the proper user. Not quite sure what gateway might do > this, let alone work very well with sipexecs and allow me to expand PRI's > as we go. > > But in reading about sipxecs, I see there are a LOT of fax functions built > in and this is where another bit of confusion comes in for me. Are these > functions so that I can in fact simply take the calls from the gateway and > then sipxecs itself can forward those to another device, such as my fax > server? > > Which ever way I do this, I would like to keep voice quality way up there > so am happy to send to another device or, if sipxecs can actually deal with > faxes and I've not seen that yet, am more than happy to throw what ever > hardware I need to (servers) in order to make this work well. > > ANY help would be very appreciated on this matter. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ > </[email protected]>
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