Fax Pass-Through
Fax pass-through, as illustrated in Figure 2-6, is the simplest address for sending fax
over IP networks, but it is not the default, nor is it the best adorable adjustment of supporting
fax over IP. T.38 fax broadcast provides a added reliable and error-free adjustment of sending
faxes over an IP network, but some third-party H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) implementations do not abutment T.38 fax relay. These aforementioned implementations often
support fax pass-through.
Fax pass-through is the accompaniment of the approach afterwards the fax up-speed action has occurred.
In fax pass-through mode, gateways do not analyze a fax alarm from a articulation call. Fax
communication amid the two fax machines is agitated in its absoluteness in-band over a
voice call. Back application fax pass-through with up speed, the gateways are to some extent
aware of the fax call. Although broadcast mechanisms are not employed, with up speed, the
gateways admit a alleged terminal identification fax tone, automatically change the
voice codec to G.711 if all-important (thus the appellation up acceleration ), and about-face off echo
cancellation and VAD for the continuance of the call.
Fax pass-through is additionally accepted as articulation bandage abstracts by the ITU. Articulation bandage abstracts refers to
the carriage of fax or modem signals over a articulation approach through a packet network
with an encoding adapted for fax or modem signals. The minimum set of coders for
voice bandage abstracts approach is G.711 mu-law and a-law with VAD disabled.
Figure 2-6 Fax and Modem Pass-Through Topology
Fax pass-through takes abode back admission T.30 fax abstracts is not demodulated or compressed
for its alteration through the packet network. The two endpoints (fax machines or
modems) acquaint anon to anniversary added over a cellophane IP connection. The gateway
does not analyze fax calls from articulation calls.
With pass-through, the fax cartage is agitated amid the two gateways in RTP packets
using an uncompressed architecture akin the G.711 codec. This adjustment of transporting
fax cartage takes a connected 64 kbps (payload) beck additional its IP aerial end-to-end for
the continuance of the call. IP aerial is 16 kbps for accustomed articulation traffic, but back switching
to pass-through, the packetization aeon is bargain from 20 ms to 10 ms. Table 2-4
compares a G.711 VoIP alarm that uses 20 ms packetization with a G.711 fax pass-through
call that uses 10 ms packetization.
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Analog Abstracts Tunnelled
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