On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Wilton Helm wrote:
I've been following this thread and trying to sort out what is
wanted, what is available, and why. Comments to the following would
be appreciated and might be useful to others.
1. Why would anyone originate a FAX via VoIP? If it has to go
through a bunch of translation steps at both ends, it would seem
better to simply scan the document (assuming it isn't in electronic
form to begin with) and attach it to an E-Mail.
2. Why would anyone terminate a FAX call coming through Asterisk in
a FAX machine? Isn't there a way to capture it electronically? If
so, it seems that putting the electronic documents in a queue where
people can open them, save them, and if they wish, print them would
be much more useful (and planet friendly, since a lot aren't worth
putting on paper).
I can answer both of those with a single point. We just switched
(entirely) to Asterisk a few weeks ago. We looked, very briefly, at
various ways to get rid of the physical, analog, fax machines. They
all ended with the answer "People can't figure out e-mail as it is,
they aren't going to figure out how to fax via e-mail.".
What we need is a pure VoIP fax machine.
Daniel
Wilton
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