[AusNOG] Cisco SPA - Fax in Australia

[Joshua D'Alton]

There are legal reasons I believe.

EG must be delivered via mail or fax, email isn't in a lot of those...
'technical' requirements yet.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:50 PM, David Witham <david.witham at netsip.com.au>wrote:

>  +1 to Andrews response. This is our approach also. Although if the fax
> is being sent across a public network sometimes you have to resort to t.38
> and all its foibles.
>
> Macca - I ask myself all the time why people still insist on faxing. And
> their machines are all-in-one with scan-to-email! Go figure!
>
> David
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* AusNOG on behalf of McDonald Richards
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 22 April 2014 17:38
> *To:* Andrew Yager
>
> *Cc:* AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Cisco SPA - Fax in Australia
>
>  The holy grail of faxing is a scanner and email....
>
>  Macca
>
>
> On 22 Apr 2014, at 5:31 pm, "Andrew Yager" <andrew at rwts.com.au> wrote:
>
>   Hi Joseph,
>
>  Best luck with these units is to disable anything smart and make sure
> the impedence settings are set correctly.
>
>  Our usual strategy is:
>
>  - disable silence suppression
> - disable fax detection
> - disable T.38
> - set Australian impedance settings
> - ensure only codec for negotiation is alaw
>
>  normally this takes it from about a 20% success rate on fax calls to
> around 96%.
>
>  Still looking for a "holy grail" solution.
>
>  Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 22 April 2014 15:31, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>>  Trying to have some luck using faxes behind Cisco SPA ATA's, in
>> particular testing with an SPA122. I can get the unit to detect its a fax
>> coming through, but often they don't begin communication between the 2
>> endpoints, or if by luck they do I get a comm error.
>>
>>  T.38 is enabled, NSE enabled, also tried with no NSE enabled.
>>
>>  Anyone had luck getting these units to work in AU ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
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