A colleague of mine did some testing the other day, with a digium TDM400 with FXS modules hooked up to fax machines and a TE120P hooked up to our testing E1 line.
It seems to work pretty well, and she said it was easy to configure. PaulH On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:55 -0700, shadowym wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. Seems there are at least 2 or 3 people giving > strong recommendations to iaxmodem/hylafax as a reliable (ie. business grade > production) solution. That is just the sort of feedback I was looking for. > > My application is just standard business reception of faxes. Right now they > use WinFax and probably receive about 30 to 50 faxes a day. I want to wean > them off Winfax as it's not really supported anymore and I dislike all > things Symantec in general. > > Receiving faxes on Asterisk has the added benefit of being able to use the > fax line as an extra outgoing line when the rest are in use. That is what > they are doing now on their key system and they don't want to lose that > ability. I don't blame them. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Turnbull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 2:18 PM > To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' > Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception > > I use Asterisk and Hylafax and iaxmodem to send 600+ faxes per week with no > baby sitting, I receive about 20 and it requires no baby sitting > > Hylafax and iaxmodem with Asterisk works very well - check out iaxmodem and > hylafax lists for much bigger examples > > Cheers Duncan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shadowym > Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 7:34 a.m. > To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' > Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception > > Sorry but I must have missed it if someone else responded. If the built in > fax reception doesn't work very well what about the 3rd party stuff > mentioned on the Asterisk Wiki? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Totaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 8:38 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception > > Someone already answered this question. The answer is no, it does not work > by your definition of production ready. > > Thanks, > Steve Totaro > http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com > KB3OPB > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shadowym > > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 11:20 AM > > To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' > > Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception > > > > Anybody?? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: shadowym [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:35 AM > > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > > Subject: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception > > > > > > > > So what is the bottom line? Does it work or not. I've heard stories > it > > works, it doesn't work, it kinda sorta works when it's not raining out > > side. > > Everything under the rainbow. > > > > What's the bottom line with recent updates on 1.2.x? Is it production > > ready for fax? By production ready I mean that it just works all the > > time > and > > doesn't need any babysitting. Do I have to worry about dropped lines, > > sometimes not detecting incoming fax tone....yada yada. > > > > I know I don't have to use fax on Asterisk but I really want to for > > various reasons. Mostly incoming but outgoing is a nice to have. > > Should I > use an > > addon package and if so which one? Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > > asterisk-users mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users