On Jan 20, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: > A comparison wouldn't be complete without mentioning Hylafax. Hylafax has a > great infrastructure - tools for integrating with Windows clients, and so on. > Neither spandsp or the Digium FAX code can match that for FAX termination. I > think its biggest drawback is you either use it with iaxmodem for audio > FAXing, or t38modem for T.38 FAXing. It can't smoothly integrate the two > right now.
As a longtime Hylafax user, I can confirm it's an excellent solution. I am somewhat surprised about the comment of being able to do audio or t.38, but not both. This is probably a little true and untrue at the same time, though I have never used t.38modem with Hylafax. Given the structure of the product, you could have HylaFAX connected to both an IAXModem and a T.38Modem at the same time (or 23 IAXModems, a 24-port T1/E1 PCI-card modem, and 7 t.38modems for that matter...). What it cannot do, is receive audio and t.38 on the same port, which is what I presume that Steve was referring to. This is really a limitation of IAXmodem and t.38modem, as one only handles audio, the other only handles t.38. In other words, you could route t.38 faxes to it on port 1 and audio faxes on port2, but you cannot have port 1 handle both types. Tom -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
