Re: [hylafax-users] Fax across VoIP lines working for anyone?

["Bruce Whittaker" <bwhittak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Bruce Whittaker Tel:  02-92694193 02/02/2005 09:32

To:        Alexandre Aractingi <aaractingi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>@EASMTP         cc:                 Subject:        Re: [hylafax-users] Fax across VoIP lines working for anyone?Link

>> On 2005.01.31 14:50 Bruce Whittaker wrote:
>> > Hmm...
>> >
>> > I'm new to both FoIP and VoIP. A quick question for you.
>> >
>> > The implementation they are looking at putting in here will be VoIP,
>> > should they have a network issue,
>> > they intend to flip faxes over to the normal phone lines. If I migrate
>> > to
>> > T.38, will it work over the normal phone lines as well ?
>>
>> The answer to the question you're trying to ask is no.

>I'm not sure what B. Whittaker is "trying to ask" here, but to make it
>clearer for him:
>- as it's been mentioned, fax on VoIP (encoding fax directly in a G.711
>RTP stream) is not reliable, so you may forget about that
>- but you can have T38 and VoIP in the same network architecture, a lot
>of VoIP gateways also feature T38 relay
>- "normal phone lines" only support "standard" fax protocols, you have
>to use adapters to connect your (analog) fax machine at one end, and
>adapters (gateways) to connect to (analog or numeric) phone lines at the
>other end if you want your fax traffic to go over IP.


Thanks Alexandre & Lee,

I understand now. Sorry for the poorly worded question I'm glad you both understood what my aim was.

I'll try to phrase my questions a little better next time *grin*

Cheers,

Bruce Whittaker,
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