> Steve Underwood wrote: > > > Lee Howards wrote: > > However, many (although not all, dare I say most?) modems support Fax > > Class 1 or Class 1.0. In this mode the faxing is heavily dependent > > upon the DTE and thus the support or lack of support for ECM comes > > from the fax software. Your average fax software that comes on a CD > > bundled with your modem is not going to support ECM. Symantec (your > > WinFax people) recently purchased the rights to Procomm Plus (yes, if > > you're an old BBSer you may have this on your shelf), which does > > support ECM in Class 1, so maybe Symantec will get that ECM technology > > into WinFax eventually. In the open-source world, HylaFAX now > > supports ECM in its Class 1 implementation in its current CVS HEAD (to > > someday become 4.2.0). > > > > I don't know of many other Class 1 Fax Softwares that support ECM. > > Are you sure that approach is free from patent problems? I thought the > ECM protocol was encumbered. If not, that is good news. :-)
Steve, I'm not a lawyer, but I'll give this a shot ;-) Although particular vendor implementations of ECM may be proprietary, ECM is a standard outlined in the ITU's Recommendation T.30, so it's no more encumbered than a whole lot of stuff your rxfax and txfax doodads are already doing. -Darren -- Darren Nickerson Senior Sales & Support Engineer iFax Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.215.438.4638 +1.215.243.8335 (fax) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
