[GRLUG] VOIP "Dialtone"

[Steve Romanow]

On 4/28/2010 4:48 PM, mailtonick wrote:
> We use at&t IP Flex. It's a single T1 line for data "bundled" with 12
> channels for phone. Each incoming call uses 28kb, which is released
> upon call completion. A big question was whether faxing would work -
> at&t didn't know,  wouldn't promise anything. After a couple of tweaks
> on rightfax and by at&t, it worked. The voice quality is very good.
> Yet, I'd recommend the path you're considering over ours. Their
> implementation was terrible, it took about 5 months for them to get it
> right.
>
> I'll be replacing our internal system with an asterisk-based one
> shortly. A couple of asterisk experts I've talked to, 4 months ago,
> weren't entirely confident about integrating faxing with an asterisk
> solution. Maybe that's changing now.
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, L. V. Lammert<lvl at omnitec.net>  wrote:
>    
>> At 03:01 PM 4/28/2010, you wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> It's just another voice carrier that you can interface with Asterisk
>>> with the appropriate equipment. Once it's into Asterisk, it can go out
>>> any other voice carrier you have the equipment for, including SIP or
>>> IAX on an IP network.
>>>        
>> OK, .. so the T1 channels are just incoming phone lines, .. not
>> VOIP/SIP. Makes sense.
>>
>>          Thanks!
>>
>>          Lee
>>
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I verified with our provider (vanbelkum) and faxing is not through 
asterisk, but a local loop.  I am not an expert on this so I am 
repeating as best as I recall.  Maybe consider a fax-to-email service 
like EFax?