Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax+ With E1 card possible ?

["George H" <george.dma@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 14, 2007 4:36 PM, Andrew Rinaldi <andrew.rinaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> If your current setup does everything that you need then why not simply
> upgrade to an 8-port analog fax card ?  5,000 pages a day really is not
> terribly demanding especially if you use V.34 and JBIG compression.  The
> biggest single advantage of staying with analog is that you can continue to
> allow HylaFAX to do all of the fax protocol work... when you select a E1
> card you are using proprietary API's or are dependant on the card vendors
> protocols which are often not very robust and rarely get updated.
>
> One final point.... in the comparative performance tests that I have seen
> analog usually outperforms digital.
>
> Regards
>

Not all the faxes come in as v.34 and most of them don't come in as
JBIG, but that isn't the need for the E1. The E1 is so that we can
expand to 30 lines or even 60 lines to 1 hylafax server. The most I've
seen from Mainpine is the IQ-Express or the RockForce with a max of 8
ports. If I supposedly get a Server I'd need to put 4 RockForce cards
in it and i'd get a total of 32 ports. Even then those will be hooked
up to some gateway/E1 things we have that hold around 1,000 lines. We
may even need to get 60 line (would use 2 E1 cards) but with analouge
I'd need to somehow get more PCI slots.

So you see what i'm getting at here.. more on the topic of expansion
without having to build another server. Maybe I might have to do that
in the end.. who knows. I looked at these brooktrout cards and they
need some downloadable licsence key or something. That just doesn't go
well with me.



> Andrew Rinaldi
> Mainpine Developer Support
> USA +1 503 822 9944 | UK +44 8458 909438
> andrew.rinaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx | www.mainpine.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George H
> Sent: 14 December 2007 14:21
> To: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [hylafax-users] Hylafax+ With E1 card possible ?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Want to say that hylafax+ is really great and because of it my faxserver
> with 5 external modems is taking on HUGE load (5,000 pages a
> day) and it's going to get larger.
>
> While thinking of solutions I came up with the idea of using an E1 fax card
> that can take 30 lines. I've never tried this before on hylafax+ but we are
> using E1s internally for other things.
>
> So wondering if anyone has ever used HylaFAX+ with an E1 card and if so does
> HylaFAX+ see ttyS0 to ttyS30 ?
> Another thing, E1s are digital and they send like 30 signals within 1
> cable... does this have any impact on fax transmissions ?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> George H
> george.dma@xxxxxxxxx
>
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George H
george.dma@xxxxxxxxx


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