[GRLUG] VOIP "Dialtone"

[mailtonick]

That's plan B :)
Either EFax or trustfax. We have high volume of faxes going out as
well, and I'd like to avoid fee per page, if possible.
For those interested, I called the top 10 companies, Efax was the only
provider that lets you port numbers.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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