During a recent project, I was asked to configure a Linksys SPA942 4-Line IP Telephone to work with Asterisk in an medium-sized office environment. Since this phone was going to be one of many used in a corporate environment, I decided I would need one master configuration, and then individual configurations for each phone. […]

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This might be a bug with the particular version of Asterisk 1.2 I’m using, but it’s pretty darn annoying. Hopefully, it doesn’t effect you if you are using the latest version of 1.2 or 1.4.
What I’m trying to do is play some background music while I wait for the caller to enter an extension. […]

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Note: This is part of a discussion regarding the configuration of a Cisco AS5300 for T.37 Store and Forward Faxing.
The final piece of the T.37 Store and Forward Fax configuration is the dial peers to handle the incoming fax and the outgoing email. I’ll walk you through the configuration of each peer and then […]

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Note: This is part of a discussion regarding the configuration of a Cisco AS5300 for T.37 Store and Forward Faxing.
Unfortunately, the Cisco AS5300 does not have the ability to handle incoming fax processing without the help of additional software. You can download the app_faxmail_onramp TCL script from the TCLWare download area on Cisco’s web […]

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I was recently engaged to configure a fax-to-email solution using a Cisco AS5300 and Asterisk. My original idea was to compile spandsp into Asterisk and use the RxFax() application to receive faxes. Everything seemed to work OK on the Asterisk side, but I had a lot of trouble with incoming faxes as they […]

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