LEVERAGE YOUR VOIP INFRASTRUCTURE WITH FOIP

Many of you have made those costly investments with Cisco, Avaya, Quintum, Alacatel etc. in building a voice over IP network infrastructure. That investment was measured and prudent and one that will yield cost savings and productivity benefits. Why not take advantage of this infrastructure and seamlessly roll out and enable Dialogic hardware (or virtual SR 140 software) along with the powerful and robust fax serving application of Open Text's Fax Server? Even in the absence of a VOIP network your business can gain the dramatic cost savings and increased productivity by virtualizing your fax applications with the powerful synergy between Open Textand Dialogic!

Fax Over IP transmissions use the internet for all or part of the journey from sender to receiver. FOIP features many significant benefits:

1. Leveraging the backbone of the internet for fax communication
2. Consolidating voice, data and fax communication under one system.
3. Helping organizations to avoid long distance PSTN charges on fax traffic between field office local calling areas.
4. Reduces annual PBX maintenance costs and lowers total equipment and management costs.
5. Decreases complexity by merging voice, fax and data on one network.
   
6. Eliminates the need to deploy and maintain remote fax servers and eliminates the need to maintain fax ports on the PBX.
7. Eliminates the need to install or maintain fax boards (via SR 140)
8. Takes advantage of existing IP infrastructure
9. Takes advantage of excess capacity by sharing fax server resources throughout the entire network including remote locations.
10. Eliminates the need to purchase back up boards or advanced replacement contracts required for host-based fax platforms.

Fax Server supports all three ITU protocols - T.30, T.37 and T.38 along with Dialogic's host-based SR 140 application to become the preeminent application player in this burgeoning space. With Fax Server 9.3 (FP1) or current release 9.4 or with server software organizations have two options for implementing FOIP. They can use either a Dialogic (Brooktrout) board solution or a software only (SR 140) solution.

Using any option, the Fax Server can talk to network equipment such as IP-PBX routers or media gateways that support FOIP protocols. In this scenario, the fax document travels as IP packets to on-premise, IP-enabled equipment and then over the internet for all or a part of its lifecycle, much like a regular VOIP phone call. In some scenarios a fax transmission may never touch the PSTN at all and in most business settings the fax will eventually end up on a recipients PSTN based fax machine or server.

Don't delay in taking advantage of these aforementioned innovative technologies that will allow your company to reap the many benefits listed while reducing your total cost of ownership dramatically!

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