linksys spa3102 or 2100 are known to work.
Grandstream also should do it with recent firmware.
Don't be fooled by what is written on the box, lot of ata's out there
claim t.38. (while the firmware doesnt contain anything related to t.38)
Zoa
Christopher Corn wrote:
lee,
Thanks for the feedback.
in most diagrams explaining t38, it shows, the sending fax machine
connecting to a pots before connecting to a gateway,then the
internet. but if i've read and understood correctly, the sending end
can use an ATA with t38 support instead of a pots. in that case, where
does the packetization of the t30 data happen? at the ATA? level i
presume?
http://www.answers.com/topic/t-30-protocol-figure-01-jpg
also, can you recommened a good asterisk compatible ATA adapter with
t38 support? i believe cisco has one.
Thanks in advance.
*/Lee Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
Christopher Corn wrote:
> May I ask, from your own personal experience. is it not
necessaritly
> worth (the headaches) of investing mytime into setting up
SPANDSP into
> my asterisk system, but rather invest it into going to a
company, like
> packet8 that offers t38 conversion?
I am not really in a position to tell you what something will be
worth
to you - especially when I've not even used that something myself. I
know and use spandsp as a library, with IAXmodem and HylaFAX, but
I do
not have any experience with spandsp in txfax/rxfax applications
or in
its new T.38 gatewaying. I suspect that I'll eventually get into
spandsp's T.38 aspects, but without that I've only had a limited
amount
of hands-on exposure to T.38 applications in the form of t38modem and
Cisco gateways (which experience was somewhat disenchanting - mostly
because of the gateway T.30 processing).
If you have a T.38 fax machine or if you have a T.38-capable ATA
connected to a fax machine and you do not have your own PSTN lines
then
I would suspect that it would be worthwhile to use T.38
pass-through on
Asterisk 1.4 or OpenPBX in conjunction with a T.38-supporting FoIP
provider. (Because otherwise you don't have any straight-forward,
reliable means for faxing from your internal fax machines.)
> what does the future of faxing lean towards? before entering an era
> when all fax machines run the t38 protocol. will we see more t38
> termination services or faxing through g711?
T.38 is the end-all solution for faxing over IP networks. So I
suspect
that you will see the pervasiveness of T.38 implementations increase
along with the pervasiveness of VoIP in general. That said, VoIP has
its own fair share of problems that keeps it from being capable of
replacing PSTN circuits entirely, and so as long as those problems
are
not generally resolvable for your average business or service
provider
then you'll continue to also see more of the same, traditional,
modem-ing fax machines. So I strongly suspect that you'll see more of
T.38, but I don't think that the PSTN (and traditional fax
machines with
it) is going away any time soon.
> from what i've read, using a service that does t38 termination,
seems
> to be where i should go.
I would say that it entirely depends upon whether or not you have
PSTN
lines yourself. If you do, then I would take whatever efforts you can
to avoid the additional points of T.30 processing/relaying (therefore
avoiding T.38 gatewaying). But if you do not have PSTN lines, then
take
whatever efforts you can to properly implement T.38 to your FoIP
provider who will gateway for you.
Lee.
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