On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Dan Journo <d...@keshercommunications.com> wrote: > How do these fax2email providers run their service? > > Do they all use physical lines rather than use the internet?
If you read far enough back in the archives, you'll find somebody who claimed they used asterisk-1.4 (I think hylafax) and voip But that they did so in a colo, one-hop and almost no RTT away from their provider. Again, at which point, you're not saving money compared to an analogue fax over PSTN unless you have a really large volume, and even then you can often get better bulk pricing for PSTN. You know your usage and you know your budget. If you don't have time to fight broken faxes, learn asterisk-1.6, and provision a voip provider, just stick with analogue fax over PSTN. My business situation: channelized DS3, that's 28x 23 voice channels -> Cisco voice routers -> SIP -> asterisk-1.6 app_fax() Working very well for us, but I don't know whether your budget or usage is going to justify something like that. As for what a commercial service uses, they use whatever was the cheapest wherever they host their services. Real modem pools, or real brooktrout modem boards are common. That would have been a better idea for my situation if I wasn't sharing the circuits with other voice services. _______________________________________________ -- 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