Monday, October 30, 2006

Move to Hylafax/IaxModem Solution

After many tests and tests and tests the result of the Spandsp/RxFax combination is disapointment since it is always fails to deal with G3 fax machines (e.g. some Canon machines). The received faxes are always craped and a lot of error lines are reported.
All the recent Spandsp snapshots have been applied to the installtion in case of a bug fix but the result is the same since the problem seems to be at the RxFax application.

The next action will be to move to the Hylafax with IaxModem integration since this solution has been reported from many as a high reliable solution providing ECM (since it is implemented by the Hylafax side) and no problems. Using this soltuon (Hylafax & IaxModem) provides many advantages like :

  • The use of the existing TE110P E1 card for connectivity with the PBX
  • The use of Asterisk dialplan for routing
  • The option to use many open source end user interfaces with the choice of web-based or desktop client applications.
  • Support by a group of people that develop Hylafax and IaxModem.
Further notes, problems and impressions of the solution will come.

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