Andreas van dem Helge wrote: > Cisco gateway with T.38 support. That's the only real way to do faxing > through asterisk.
Although this statement has marginally more truth to it given the SIP-only context that the original poster provided, it is still substantially inaccurate. There are several ways to do T.38 other than with a Cisco gateway. Now, if you meant that T.38 is the only way in the SIP-only context (and not specifically Cisco-branded T.38) then that has significantly more accuracy to it. However, if by *real* you also mean *reliable* then be aware that T.38 over SIP/UDP has an inherent weakness due to the medium that make it, in my experience, significantly less-reliable than simply having a fax machine hooked up to a traditional analog line. When my clients come to me with the same issue I generally do not push them into a corner with T.38. In almost all cases they find that it is worth the $20-50 monthly for the analog fax line... and if that expense is too much then the on-line fax service provider is an easy recommendation. Note that if you have a fax machine that performs some variant of T.37 (fax-over-email) and you have an on-line service provider that is willing to work with you... then you can rather easily get your fax machine faxing through their service. (Which is yet another option.) Thanks, Lee. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
