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The future of Fax is not over, its Fax over IP

November 24, 2009

While people wait for fax technology to fade away, fax machines still sit there, guzzling electricity, attracting dust and spitting out shiny expensive paper.

People still hop up and down from their seats, wearing out the carpet and you still see people sticking rulers under cupboards trying to persuade an escapist document to come out from behind the cables.

As long term fax technology distributors, we know better than most that ‘Email communications’ has been a contender for a decade. But perhaps it’s because it doesn’t give that same peace of mind, doesn’t give that ‘instant assurance’ that their document was sent and received that email hasn’t displaced the trusty fax machine?

Perhaps it’s because Fax is still the most reliable point-to-point communication there is?

Hasn’t everyone got a fax server?

Ironically, a lot of people we talk to are still letting their users fax manually. They tell us they thought fax was on the wane and soldiered on with what they had. We could see their point, with old fax server technology, installed on Tin (servers), it wasn’t easy to ‘plug and play’, particularly if there were multiple sites.

Meanwhile everything has moved on.

We live in a virtual world, and now, so does fax. In fact, fax compliments a VOIP strategy so well; people are tying it in to their VOIP business case.

Going electronic, reducing paper and ink carbon footprints by going electronic are the simple ‘quick wins’, but the ability to automate the ongoing process is where the ‘big wins‘ come.

  • Miss out the human, and send documents from applications automatically
  • All fax documents arrive pre-scanned – we can automate the posting of data

How Does Fax Over IP change things?

We’ve set out the Fax over IP business case here, but essentially it integrates into IP networks, and by breaking the data in a fax transmission into data packets and sending them digitally to where they need to go.

Fax over IP Server Software provides a virtual fax server and can centrally host faxing for multiple locations. Inbound and outbound faxing becomes a desktop function with fax to email capability.

Want to know more? Contact us enquiries@processflows.co.uk or 01962 835053.

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