Fax Modems?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:49:53PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2009/3/5 geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com>:
> > I'll like to set up a hylafax server to SEND faxes from my computer. I'm
> > runnning Ubuntu
> > 8.04.2 LTS. I have several HAM type modems, but from what I can see there
> > are no drivers
> > in a 2.6 kernel for them.
> >
> > What do people use? Is there a source of fax modems that work with Hylafax
> > in Israel?
> 
> I might be a bit hijacking the thread but since I think Geoffrey uses
> VoIP this might be relevant still - does anyone here have a working
> solution for faxing over non-PSTN lines? Is Fax<->Email gateway the
> only way?


Check hylafax. Maybe together with iaxmodem from Asterisk.

> 
> I heard about T.38 and needing a gateway between a regular fax and
> something which will convert the analog signal to "Fax Over IP"
> (FoIP?), but so far haven't found anyone who can give me such a
> service or gadget.

Many stand-alone faxes actually support T.37 (basically: Fax over SMTP).

T.38 is getting more or less supported in devices and softwares, though.

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