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Re: Direct Inward Dial



On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:37:52PM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> > Perhaps I misunderstood him, David, but I gathered he was wondering
> > whether it was possible to use HylaFax with hardware that terminates a
> > DID-style telco trunk, picking off the inpulsing to determine where to
> > route the incoming fax.
> 
> His follow up says that he is going through a PABX, not directly terminating
> the trunk.

Yeah, it hit my mailbox right after I hit send.  <sigh>

>            If anything can be done here, other than a modem per number,
> it is either going to involve treating the fax interface as a remote PABX
> over a tie line, or something rather PABX specific, e.g. CTI outputs or
> feature phone interfaces.  I think he needs to find out a lot more about
> his PABX.  I suppose it might be possible to use a PABXes voice mail
> logic, but he's still going to need hardware that probably doesn't exist
> or doesn't look like a fax modem.

Concur.

Cheers,
-- jra
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