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Fax For Asterisk
T.38 fax for Asterisk
Digium‘s Fax For Asterisk is a commercial facsimile (Fax) termination and origination solution designed to enhance the capabilities of Open Source and commercial Asterisk as well as Switchvox. Fax For Asterisk bundles a suite of user-friendly Asterisk applications and a licensed version of the industry’s leading fax modem software from Commetrex. Fax For Asterisk provides low speed (14400bps) PSTN faxing via DAHDI-compatible telephony boards as well as VoIP faxing to T.38-compatible SIP endpoints and service providers. Licensed on a per-channel basis, Digium‘s Fax For Asterisk provides a complete, cost-effective, commercial fax solution for Asterisk users.
Fax For Asterisk provides two components: res_fax and res_fax_digium. Res_fax is an Asterisk resource module that adds fax termination and origination functionality in Asterisk. It provides Asterisk dialplan functions and dialplan applications to enable the user to build highly-customizable fax solutions. Res_fax_digium provides core fax processing functionality in the form of several supported fax modems — V.21, V.27ter, V.29, and V.17 — to achieve speeds up to 14400bps.
Asterisk says Hello to Fax
If you ask Google about faxing for Asterisk, with the search keywords asterisk and fax, and you ask Google to omit similar entries, you’ll end up with 52 pages of results.
If you ask Google how many times fax has been mentioned on an Asterisk mailing list, by setting the site parameter to lists.digium.com, then Google tells you there are 1120 utterances.
Yesterday, if you asked Digium for help in faxing documents through Asterisk, we’d have apologized and said that we didn’t offer a fax solution for Asterisk.
That was yesterday.
Today, Digium is pleased to announce Fax For Asterisk.
Fax For Asterisk is a commercial facsimile (Fax) termination and origination solution designed to enhance the capabilities of Open Source and commercial Asterisk as well as Switchvox. Fax For Asterisk bundles a suite of user-friendly Asterisk applications and a licensed version of the industry’s leading fax modem software from Commetrex. Fax For Asterisk provides low speed (14400bps) PSTN faxing via DAHDI-compatible telephony boards as well as VoIP faxing to T.38-compatible SIP endpoints and service providers. Licensed on a per-channel basis, Digium’s Fax For Asterisk provides a complete, cost-effective, commercial fax solution for Asterisk users.
Wait, I’ve forgotten something…okay, not really. There’s also Free Fax For Asterisk. Free Fax For Asterisk provides a single-channel only, per Asterisk, version of Fax For Asterisk, for free. Want to use Free Fax For Asterisk now? Visit the Digium webstore and get a license, free of charge.
