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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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What is Fax over IP?

Fax over IP (FoIP) is not the scanning of an image and transmission of the results to a remote end via the Internet. That would be e-mailing (the resulting TIFF file), or FTPing it, or sending the file via HTTP PUT. Or whatever. No, that would be very easy; the Internet was born for it, but that is not faxing.

Fax over IP is actually to interact via the Internet with a remote, regular (T30, PSTN) fax machine. The problem is, to exactly reproduce the characteristics of a PSTN electrical circuit via a packet network is almost impossible. Packets get delayed, they arrive out-of-order (for example, the third packet arrives after the fifth), they get lost (for example, the fourth and seventh packets do not arrive at all), delays ...

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ISBN: 9781784398880