SIP/IAX Windows Software Modem

Not sure I exactly understand your application, however this may help. Me have been using these port servers from Connect Tech called Blue Heat. They run clean at 128k so I imagine the fax application would work like a champ.

http://www.connecttech.com/sub/Products/Ethernet_to_serial_BlueHe...

Let me know what you think.

I have customers who use http://vitelity.net
they have a Windows fax software which allows them to fax from the computer
plus a webbased GUI
it is cheap at $3.00 a month and .03 a min.

I have customers who use http://vitelity.net
they have a Windows fax software which allows them to fax from the computer
plus a webbased GUI
it is cheap at $3.00 a month and .03 a min.
you can do MANY things with the service it is setup so that you can do branded reselling as well

The windows software is easy to use BUT it does not tie into outlook but with address in the built in addy book you can send a fax in about ten clicks of the mouse (XLS, doc, pdf. jpeg, text, and more)

multi-accounts / emaiks / DID..... blah blah.............

I agree. I'd love to get rid of faxing, however, faxing is still HUGE! I'd love to get rid of GFI and just use hylafax, but my customers have grown to love faxing directly from outlook, which is also easy for me. I don't have to open ports for fax clients to connect to fax servers, everything is just done through outlook and RPC over HTTPS.

In reality if I could get rid of gfi and use hylafax for everything my problems would be solved, but I haven't figured out how to have hylafax pick up the faxes the would be routed to it.

So it's one route or the other, I would have thought that if iaxmodem is available for linux there might be a windows version available.

I'm kinda surprised i'm the first person trying to integrate exchange and hylafax as well......

What we need is a program that connects a virtual serial port from Windows into Linux.

If you can do that, then you can hook iaxmodem into windows via the virtual serial port.

My goal is to eliminate hardware all together just like hylafax and asterisk do it via iax modem. It just works great!

The reason we want to keep outlook is that while some programs allow you to email 13065551212@domain.com to send a fax, gfi allows the person to go through their contacts use the persons fax contact and send directly to that. It works VERY well the way we have it now, contact management is easy, you enter a fax number where is says fax number and when you go to fax you pick that from your contacts. Very simple, customers love it. But from an infrastructure side as we do more with asterisk i'm seeing a way to eliminate some hardware.

I guess I'll scrap this and start looking at how to integrate exchange 2003 with hylafax for sending faxes instead.

Making Fax over IP with gfi is quite expensive, I looked into the cost of the brook trout foip cards and they are definitely not cheap. Faxmaker does not talk directly to Asterisk. I like the gfi product, and would not mind keeping it, I just want to eliminate all the hardware sitting on shelves between the servers with gfi running and the pbx's.