We are currently spending thousands a month using Interfax.net to send faxes for our billing application. I’m looking at moving it inhouse onto my Asterisk box with Asterfax. I was going to purchase a:
I’ve been reading here that echo cancellation can mess up faxing and am wondering about any recommendations for hardware before I buy anything. There is no VOIP involved here, and fax volume will be about 10000 pages/day but growing to 3x that within the next 6 months.
I don’t necessarily have to use Asterisk if someone has another suggestion, but it was free and the SMTP option in AsterFax would work easily when it comes to integrating with our software. Thanks for any suggestions.
Hi Not sure about sangoma cards, But the echo can is turned off when “fax/data” tones are heard. This can be seen in the logs
As to the hardware, you are woefully undersized for growth, You need to work out how long it takes to send a page the multply that by 10000
My desktop fax takes about 50 seconds to fax a page in total. so thats
((10000 * 50) / 60)/60 = 139 hours of faxes. so if faxing 24 hours a day thats 6 lines. and at a cent a min thats $83.00 a day
my plan for phone lines was just to put in lines with unlimited local and LD calling. start with 4 lines and see how that goes then add more if/when needed.
it would be cheaper for me to go with a digium card with no hardware echo cancellation. would that make more sense?
hmm, ok that might be doable. they have a t1 in the richmond office, i might be able to put the hardware there. i guess if i went that route i would need different hardware for the asterisk box.
The figures I was provided turned out to be way overboard. I just contacted our fax provider and we’re actually doing around 20,000 pages per MONTH currently. That changes things obviously and makes starting out with POTS lines a possibility. That’s about 5000 minutes/line/month (at 1min/page) with 4 lines - or less than 3 hours/day/line. I would hope that wouldn’t set off any terms of agreement alarms at Verizon.