[aklug] Re: Faxing and cell phones

Re: Up coming market for fax.

I have a vision of using a domain I own. OpenDial.org to store internatinol PSTN information as well
as information similar to e164.org (relating a telephone number to various services through
DNS/HTTP/etc..). I believe standardizing several protocols for fax to fax on top of existing
protocols (email, efax (the protocol not the service), http, T.38 (yuck), etc...) will enable us to
all have what we want. Scan a document and print it half way across the world with a routing
number. This idea has a lot of potential and I hope to find extra persons to help get it going.

- Shane

Marc Grober wrote:
> One of the things that made the vsifax product so nice was the ability
> to do lcr and to choose formats based on end user demand simply ( of
> course as well as file translation services ), but as Shane suggests
> that can all be done with open software, though I can't see a real up
> and coming market for fax...
>
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 4:05 PM, "Shane R. Spencer" <shane@bogomip.com>
> wrote:
>
>> DID are numbers mapped to a specific PSTN service.. most commonly
>> PRI or other switched PSTN
>> networks. They are numbers that are allocated to your telephone
>> company that are handed out on
>> demand to clients that require them. ACS provides a block of 100
>> DID to each PRI circuit, or at
>> least that is the case for now.
>>
>> - Shane
>>
>> Jim Gribbin wrote:
>>> What exactly do you mean by DIDs for the local area. Are these voip
>>> #s
>>> that could be pointed somewhere?
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 23:33 -0800, Shane Spencer wrote:
>>>> I can help with that btw. I'd love to drum up some interest too.
>>>> One
>>>> of my goals @ work is to figure out what to do with all the DIDs for
>>>> Anchorage that I have sitting around :) I could easily hand people
>>>> hylafax/avantfax accounts.
>>>>
>>>> I prodded Google to see if they wanted any for their GV product.
>>>> I'm
>>>> not sure if that product speaks fax yet.
>>>>
>>>> - Shane
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Jim Gribbin<jimgribbin@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Personally, I avoid faxes whenever possible. You just can't do Real
>>>>> Estate without one though. At least, not yet. You start dealing
>>>>> with
>>>>> these corporations and they still demand you send and receive
>>>>> faxes.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only reason I haven't set up with a fax service is that I
>>>>> can't get
>>>>> an Alaska phone # on any of then yet. At least not the last time I
>>>>> checked.
>>>>>
>>>>> At typical faxed Real Estate contract tends to run 18 pages. I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> think its fair to ask people to send that many pages a couple of
>>>>> times
>>>>> per deal long distance. Last time I ran the numbers, the best I
>>>>> could
>>>>> come up with long distance was just over $ 0.25 /page plus a
>>>>> monthly
>>>>> fee.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't suppose AT&T will give people some voip #'s to go along
>>>>> with
>>>>> their wireless internet service? Ala - Clearwire. With that
>>>>> combination,
>>>>> I'd be tempted to set up my own fax server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Clearwire, with their voip service, gives you a Linksys 2102 FXS.
>>>>> Or was
>>>>> it FXO? I'm always getting them mixed up.
>>>>>
>>>>> At any rate, the 2102 is advertised as being able to handle fax
>>>>> protocols, but I haven't gotten around to trying mine for that as
>>>>> yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim G
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:36 -0800, barsalou wrote:
>>>>>> Are any of you using faxing services because all you have is a
>>>>>> cell phone?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If not, what other solutions are folks using when you want to
>>>>>> receive
>>>>>> or send a fax?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike B.
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Received on Thu Aug 20 16:38:05 2009