Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax + Eicon PRI card stability / volume question

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew and Guillaume,

I've consulted a number of different companies when they were 
considering installing T1/E1 lines.  It makes a fair amount of monetary 
sense - simply from the standpoint of the monthly overhead - if you're 
talking about 24 channels.  The monetary benefits really become quite 
hazy when you get into the 7-10 channel range, and I guess it really 
depends on what kind of pricing you can get for a fractional T1/E1.

The big downside to digital installations, in my opinion, is the lack of 
selection/competition in HylaFAX-compatible hardware for digital 
installations.  I've never used CAPI4Hylafax or ISDN4Linux, and as those 
softwares are not developed in concert with HylaFAX development, I've 
never considered using them, either.  So that leaves us with the Eicon 
Diva Server and the Patton 2977.  I have long since always recommended 
the Patton over the Eicon because the Patton's true Class 1 interface 
gives the control of the fax protocol to HylaFAX.  The Diva Server's 
"fax Class" interface is something like a fax proxy, and any DCE-to-DCE 
fixes or modifications that need to occur must always come from Eicon - 
and I prefer to be in as much control of the fax protocol as possible.  
That said, Eicon's work tends to be good and I don't expect there to 
appear many problems with it.  The one thing that the Diva Server has 
going for it over the Patton 2977, though, is that it supports V.34-Fax 
(SuperG3) whereas the 2977 doesn't... which in the long run may actually 
save a fax sender a lot of money.

However, the selections in analog equipment for faxing is much better, 
and in my opinion the performance of analog faxing equipment, such as 
MainPine's RockForce cards, is superior to the performance of digital 
faxing equipment.  In theory this should not be the case, as the PRI 
D-channel gives digital solutions an advantage... but in practice my 
analog installations outperform the digital ones (although not by much).

Lee.

Andrew Rinaldi wrote:

> Good luck !
>
> Andrew 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guillaume Ross [mailto:guillaumer@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 03 February 2006 10:04
> To: andrew.rinaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax + Eicon PRI card stability / volume
> question
>
> We plan on ditching all Analog lines before the end of the year so analog is
> a no no..
>
> I think I will try with an Eicon card..
>  


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