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RockBochs FaxxBochs Product Overview

On December 30, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Rockbochs, Rockbochs Overviews

One technically challenging issue with VoIP, and one that you are bound to run into sooner or later, is how to deal with the issue of faxing. We have discussed the issues with faxing in previous article and looked at why faxing is such a problem. One of the solutions [...]

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The Facts about Faxing

On November 20, 2009 · 11 Comments · In Tech Bench

For the most part I don’t really understand why FAXing through a PBX system has become such a big issue over the past couple of years. Legacy PBX platforms have never dealt with FAXes so why should an IP PBX platform be expected to perform a task that big iron systems have never [...]

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Sangoma A200 Analog Interface Card Overview

On July 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Sangoma, Sangoma Overviews, Sangoma Videos

Sangoma’s A200 4 port FXO/FXS card delivers superior audio quality and is expandable to 24 ports in a 2U form factor.

As you need them, additional REMORA™ cards can be added to the base four-port A200 card. A single PCI or PCI Express slot hosts connection for up to 24 ports and ensures common synchronous clocking for all channels.

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Interview with Digium’s Bill Miller

On June 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Digium, News

Things have been a little quiet in the market lately with the economy where its at so we wanted to check in with our friends over at Digium and see what they have been up to so we hit up Bill Miller, VP of Product Management with a few questions.

888VS: Hi Bill, [...]

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Interview with Digium's Bill Miller

On June 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Digium, News

Things have been a little quiet in the market lately with the economy where its at so we wanted to check in with our friends over at Digium and see what they have been up to so we hit up Bill Miller, VP of Product Management with a few questions.

888VS: Hi Bill, [...]

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trixbox CE 2.8 Released

On June 17, 2009 · 3 Comments · In News, trixbox

After quite a while going through the beta process, trixbox CE 2.8 is finally ready for production use.  The two main changes from previous versions are that trixbox CE is now based on a newer CentOS kernel which should provide more hardware support for newer machines. Secondly, Asterisk 1.6 has replaced Asterisk 1.4 as the [...]

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Can you Fax with VoIP?

On May 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In VoIP FAQs

FAX was designed for analog networks, and does not travel well over a VOIP network. The reason for this is that FAX communication uses the signal in a different way to regular voice communication. When VOIP technologies digitize and compress analog voice communication it is optimized for VOICE and not for FAX. Subsequently, there are [...]

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What is FXS and FXO?

On May 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In VoIP FAQs

What do the terms FXS and FXO mean?

In telecommunication, a foreign exchange service (FX) is a network-provided service in which a telephone in a given local area is connected, via a private line, to a central office in another, i.e., “foreign”, exchange, rather than the local exchange area’s central office.

In telecommunications, a Foreign [...]

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Digium Announces Fax for Asterisk

On April 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Digium, News

Digium announced Fax For Asterisk, a complete platform for the development of fax solutions.

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