Fax (t.38) is a bit different in that there is a widely accepted protocol to handle it. That being said, I usually go analog lines from a provider for fax lines. Maybe I'm old fashioned.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 11:12 AM To: Picher, Michael; [email protected] Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Fax machines, postage machines,and a few other analog devices If I'm going to have trouble with modems, I guess I should assume I'm going to have problems with fax machines and such as well? I really made a bad assumption on this one I guessed. So you thing I would have trouble with any analog device that is transmitting data? Does anyone have any good experience with a setup that doesn't require a PRI or POTS lines. I guess I'm trying to do the impossible here. Picher, Michael wrote: > I really think you are going to have trouble with the Modem stuff... > > For your best bet you'll want analog gateways and pri gateway from same > vendor. They'll need to support Modem over IP (MoIP... v.150). > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [sipx-users] Fax machines, postage machines,and a few other > analog devices > > I think I understand most of the concepts in play here, but I'm hoping > someone can recommend some specific devices, designs, ideas, best > practices etc. > We are planning on moving from a 2 PRI based Nortel Norstar to Sipx > 4.0.2. It is VOIP provided directly from Verizon over a Verizon DS3. > > 1) We have a handful of old analog devices (fax machines, copiers that > phone home for billing, postage machines, etc). I would love to get rid > of all these, but old habits die hard for some people. > 2) I also have a separate PRI that goes it an Atlas Adtran 550 PRI > router, that routes calls to a Rightfax fax server via internal PRI > connection and a Perle systems modem bank over 4 internal ISDN > connections. I would like to get rid of this PRI all together. > > For the first part, I'm hoping to find the ideal device (ATA, Gateway, > or whatever I need) to plug 5 to 10 of these analog devices in. I'm > interested in one that can connect multiple devices that we would put in > > our data center, and one that would connect just a single device if we > had to locate next to the analog device for some reason. Hopefully > someone has had some positive experiences with some of these setups. > > For #2, I think I have a few options. I believe I could put something in > > to route an internal PRI connection to the Atlas 550. I don't want to > add any hardware cards to my Sipx machine, because I'm hoping to to put > it on VMware one day if the issues there get worked out. I can make > Rightfax Sip compatible for about a $3000 upgrade, and I could sell the > current PRI card in it for about the same. That is what I'm leaning > towards. Would it be simple to route a range of numbers from Sipx to my > Rightfax server? I know I could have Verizon send them directly to the > server, but they have proved to be difficult to work with, so I'm trying > > to keep as much control over this as possible. > As for the modem bank, it is only for outbound connections. I was > ignorantly hoping there would be a simple SIP software modem client that > > would make this a breeze. I now understand why that isn't as simple as I > > was hoping. I only have a few hosts left that need to dial out. Is there > > something that would easily allow them to dial out through Sipx? Would I > > need to use a physical modem and hook up to the device described in part > > 1? My current modem bank ( http://www.perle.com/products/833-RAS.shtml ) > > has 4 ISDN ports for outbound connection, so I could use that if it is > an option to connect that somehow. > > Thanks for all the help everyone here provides! > > -Matthew > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
