[wplug] Asterisk Forum?

[Bill Moran]

In response to Mark Sikora <markys at comcast.net>:

> Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:42:10PM -0500, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:
> >
> >>> My brain turned itself inside out when I read this.  If you're
> >>>       
> >> using > SIP to send a FAX... why don't you use email?
> >>
> >> Probably because a lot of people know how to use a fax, and their
> >> business
> >
> > I meant it facetiously :-)
>
> While all this thought sounds quite nice and seems to prove the fax over 
> SIP doesn't work, it falls down hard when you look at the glaring fact 
> that vonage provides fax service...via SIP.  Perhaps they are using a 
> different codec, but regardless, its is fax over SIP.

*shrug*  Nothing has fallen down.

I stated in my first email response that there are a number of workarounds
possible (theoretically) but no standards that I'm aware of.  If Vonage
developed their own Fax-capable codec, it's not standard SIP at that point.

But Vonage isn't VoIP anyway.  It's just a VoIP gateway to the PSTN.  If
you want to do true VoIP connecting to other VoIP customers, you can't
use fax unless you can find and agree on a lossless codec.  It is
possible that my information is dated and that there is a lossless codec
available.  Try to integrate Vonage into an existing VoIP system ...

Vonage's ability to create their own standards doesn't prove or disprove
anything.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.