I wonder if a session on Fax solutions at CIPTUG this year would be useful? Or just dealing with analog in general.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Voll, Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:Scott.Voll@wesd.org">
Scott.Voll@wesd.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So what is the best solution for Faxing when you're in a VoIP
<br>environment?<br><br>I really don't want to go back to H323 with 5 PRI's and half of my DID<br>are on an old PBX and half are on VoIP(not contiguous). Since CCM is in<br>front, I just put in a Route pattern of XXXX and if it doesn't match a
<br>IPT DID it forwards on. I don't want to setup literally 100's of DID's.<br><br>ATA's work, but spotty at times.<br><br>Fax servers sound like they have issues also.<br><br>I have 5 different sites and almost all calls come in the main site so
<br>buying a VG is not cost affective either.<br><br>Is everyone just spending money on POTS lines?<br><br>Scott<br><br>PS. I have one or two Faxes at each location except the main site that<br>has about 12.<br><br>-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Davis, Michael [mailto:<a href="mailto:Michael_Davis@eLoyalty.com">Michael_Davis@eLoyalty.com</a>]<br>Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:15 PM<br>To: Ortiz, Carlos; ciscovoip<br>Cc: Voll, Scott<br>Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Fax Servers
<br><br>I've been directly involved, from a service provider's standpoint, with<br>a large customer's Xmedius integration for the last several months.<br>Here are a few issues with Xmedius. YMMV.<br><br>First, like most FaxoIP vendors, they only support
T.38/14.4kbps. This<br>works great for G3 compression / throughput, since G3 is all that T.38<br>supports. This will cover you ~90% of the time. However, for that other<br>10% of fax calls, many fax machines built when SG3 standard was new,
<br>either fail to negotiate down or require operator intervention to do so.<br>IOS, as of 12.3T/12.4mainline, as well as older AS5xxx gateways with<br>DFCs try T.38, and fallback to passthrough mode on the assumption that
<br>the 33.6kbps call is a modem call. You may find that you will need<br>ingress gateways that force SG3 to negotiate G3 speeds. This enhanced<br>functionality is available in platforms supporting PVDM2s and 12.4T code<br>
(I don't remember the specific rev., but CCO can hook you up.)<br><br>Second, Passthrough and cisco-relay are not options for Xmedius. So if<br>you are using VG248 or ATA devices as fax ingress points, they will not<br>inter-operate with Xmedius.
<br><br>Third, Xmedius H323 stack works well if you are doing peer-to-peer, ie<br>single dial-peer for faxes on ingress and Xmedius points to a single<br>egress gateway. However, if you are leveraging gatekeepers, you'll
<br>find that 1) you cannot specify a zone for registration. Xmedius will<br>register as a terminal with the first zone configured in the gatekeeper<br>CLI. You can restrict this behavior with zone subnet statements, but
<br>that is a pain to maintain in a dynamic or service provider environment.<br>2) Inbound calls from ingress to Xmedius will not RAS properly. Static<br>aliases will be required.<br><br>HTH,<br><br>Michael<br><br><br><br>
________________________________<br><br>From: <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a> on behalf of Ortiz, Carlos<br>Sent: Thu 5/25/2006 1:15 PM<br>To: ciscovoip<br>Cc: Voll, Scott
<br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Fax Servers<br><br><br><br>When I was looking at them the two choices I was looking at were<br>RightFax (Cisco OEM's this) and Xmedius. I liked Xmedius because it is<br>a software only solution using your existing IP gateways (
h.323). I<br>tested it and it worked well, but we still have not implemented anything<br>because the project we needed it for fell through.<br><br><br><br>Carlos<br><br><br><br>________________________________<br><br>From:
<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>] On Behalf Of Voll, Scott<br>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:58 PM<br>To: ciscovoip<br>Subject: [cisco-voip] Fax Servers<br><br><br><br>What kind of price range am I look at for a Fax server that ties in with<br>CM? what are the best out there. I have big xerox's that can do
<br>scanning so I would like to tie it all together.<br><br><br><br>Can I use Unity as a fax server? How does that work?<br><br><br><br>Scott<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list
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<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ed Leatherman<br>IP Telephony Coordinator<br>West Virginia University<br>Telecommunications and Network Operations