PBX with Fax and Google Voice

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Looking to replace/port my home number which I use for mainly faxing for my home business to a PBX server ( Thinking Asterisk or Elastix ).

My question is:

  1. Does Asterisk/Elastix support Faxing ( Incoming / Outgoing )
  2. Does Asterisk/Elastix support Google Voice

Here is what I'm looking to do:

Run some sort of PBX software from my own home server that will allow me to use Google Voice for my home number, possibly allow multiple Google voice ( Though I could live with just the one ) and must support Faxing ( Incoming and Outgoing ). Would Asterisk/Elastix support all of this or would you recommend something else for this? Looking to avoid some of the pitfalls that could happen

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Best Answer

Sounds like your looking for a free solution but I thought I would throw this out as a potential alternative that does not require any setup, installation or complexity on your end. The trade off... a little bit of money every month:

http://grasshopper.com/

It's designed for small business but it does everything Google Voice does and supports faxing and faxes to PDF/Email. I think the cheapest plan is like $10 a month.

Asterisk will certainly do what you want, however if you are not familiar with Asterisk is can be a bear to setup and manage. Both of the requested features can be added through Asterisk Modules. However by just searching I found a couple of Asterisk implementations that have most of the features you are looking for built-in: http://incrediblepbx.com/

So bottom line: pay someone else to do it or be prepared for some personal time to setup and configure whatever Asterisk distro/comp you decide to use. If the above doesn't look good I highly recommend FreePBX.

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