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Mastering FreeSWITCH
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Mastering FreeSWITCH

by Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9. Faxing and T38

Faxing is here to stay. Let's admit it: however much we VoIP practitioners hate fax, however much frustration we feel, most of us must deal with fax transmission. Fax is a way to transmit images via voice circuits that were not designed to work on packet networks, and is inherently difficult to implement reliably over VoIP.

T38 is a standard that mediates between SIP and fax to achieve a reliable transmission, trying to overcoming network induced problems. FreeSWITCH implements world-class T38 (and T30, traditional fax) support, and is widely used to serve from occasional to very high traffic fax communication.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • How traditional fax works on PSTN
  • How fax works on VoIP
  • How to configure and operate ...
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