Send and pray that what we say with faxing over voip lol. Carlos Alcantar Race Telecommunications, Inc. 101 Haskins Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 P: 650.649.3550 x143 F: 650.649.3551 E: carlos at race.com -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:36 PM To: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP T38 Fax reliability On 01/06/2010 07:15 PM, Gabriel Kuri wrote:
It seems to be hit and miss, certainly not 100%, but better than trying to use either PCMU or PCMA over the commodity Internet for FAXing. PCMU/PCMA might work over a local private LAN with QoS enabled and the jitter down to almost nothing.
Agreed about T.38 vs. analog pass-through.
The biggest issue I've seen with T38 is the ATA's inability to properly negotiate a Super-G3 fax down to G3 or slower speeds. In our experience, you need to disable the Super-G3 feature of the FAX machine to slow it down to either 14.4 or 9600 and disable ECM. Many of the newer FAX machines have a "VoIP Compatibility" mode which essentially slows it down to 9600 and disables ECM.
There's been an enormous explosion of Super G3 machines in the last few years; asking users to disable SG3 is not really tenable. Fax over IP is one of those things that, like anything else, can be gotten to work passably with enough spiritual commitment. But it's just not worth it. Hand the customers some resale analog lines or what have you and be done with it. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops