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<DIV><FONT size=2>A couple of questions....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>- can you not reduce the speed of the G3 faxes to a lower
speed?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>- how about the vg224 ports? we are looking at expanding our
solution to a remote site and it's either vg224s or fxs ports in the router. i
just want to buy what i know will work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Lelio
Fulgenzi, B.A.<BR>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario
N1G 2W1<BR>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX
(JNHN)<BR>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<BR>...there's no such thing as a bad timbit...<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rsingleton@novateck.com href="mailto:rsingleton@novateck.com">Robert
Singleton</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 16, 2007 12:23
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [cisco-voip] Fax over Voip
(was:Color Cisco Phones)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 20:27 -0500, Simon, Bill wrote:<BR>>
If you think about all the conversions a fax goes through on VoIP, it's
<BR>> a wonder it EVER works.<BR><BR>> Paper -> digitized -> made
into analog noises -> converted to bits for <BR>> VoIP -> sent over
ethernet or to a voice gateway -> converted back to <BR>> analog ->
digitally reconstructed -> printed onto paper.<BR>> <BR>> Something
just seems very wrong about that.<BR><BR>The process becomes incredibly
daunting if you break down each of those<BR>steps, but that way madness
lay...<BR><BR>> A "cleaner" solution, truthfully, would be to buy a pots
line for your <BR>> fax.<BR><BR>That's about $30,000 a year for the 50 or
so affected machines, spread<BR>out in about 35 cities, *after* saving that
$30,000 by converting faxes<BR>to VoIP<BR><BR>> Or transmit by
scan/e-mail. Hey, it's more secure anyway.<BR><BR>At least 90% of my
users are very non-technical. They have incredible<BR>knowledge of plumbing
parts and supplies, but it's tough enough for them<BR>to use a fax machine
with speed dials to their locations. Many do not<BR>even have a PC. The
wholesale distribution software that we use (and<BR>sell to competitors, I
might add) is text based and many of those users<BR>do everything they need to
on a Wyse 60 terminal. Further, many of their<BR>customers are very small
businesses that probably wouldn't have a fax<BR>machine at all if we didn't
have enough market clout to make it worth<BR>their while.<BR><BR>All that
aside, my biggest fax problems are between big branch offices<BR>and their
largest customers and between my corporate credit department<BR>and many of
those same biggest customers, so just about everyone has a<BR>nice fax
machine, as opposed to some cheap junk. Ironically, the nice<BR>machines tend
to have G3 modems and that appears to be where the problem<BR>is
heading.<BR><BR>One possible solution seems to be the use of FXS ports on the
routers,<BR>as opposed to ATAs and I have the engineer working towards testing
that<BR>out.<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>cisco-voip
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