
Soft-fax and Soft-modem
This means that an ISDN adapter with an on-board DSP can also communicate with any
device that contains a modem. In the diagram below, you can see that we've added a fax
machine.
To perform the job of a modem and a CODEC at the same requires a large amount of
processing power. DSPs are very powerful processors. Nevertheless, you need one DSP
for each B channel for which you want to use this technique. There is, however, no reason
why you couldn't use an ISDN adapter that has a single DSP and a soft modem driver to
handle two modem calls at a time.
Summary
• In ISDN networks everything is carried as a stream of bits.
• Converting digital telephone signals into voice, and vice versa, is done by CODECs.
• Converting data into analogue telephone signals, and vice versa, is done by
modems.
• A CODEC is the device that allows telephony between an ISDN and the analogue
network.
• This same CODEC can be used to allow modem and fax calls to cross the same
boundary.
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