Looking for new applications that can help converge your networks?
Converged messaging ranks high on the list of applications that can provide significant benefits to your organization. Companies that have deployed a Voice over IP infrastructure are now looking to incorporate additional features that will help further improve operations and cut costs. One of the applications that can prove significant value is Fax over IP.

Fax: the forgotten factor in Voice over IP
Wikipedia states the following about Voice over IP:
"One drawback is the inability to send faxes due to software and networking restraints" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP).
Fenestrae's IP enabled fax solutions extend existing IP infrastructures, IP enabled PBXs and business applications with integrated and reliable fax server technology. Fenestrae fax solutions are in use with thousands of customers worldwide, and an increasing number of our customers move to IP based solutions.

Fenestrae advantages: Cost and Functionality
There are multiple ways in which Fenestrae Fax over IP solutions can help you control cost and improve functionality, such as:
Reduce call and transmission costs by using IP networks instead of the PSTN infrastructure.
Advanced Inbound Routing capabilities will improve efficiency by delivering incoming fax messages at any desktop, business application of workflow.
Reduce the number of of telephone and fax lines
Eliminate the use of fax machines, paper and toner while improving employee efficiency through a desktop fax solution.

What is Fax over IP? 

A definition of Fax over IP:
Transmission of a facsimile over an IP network instead of PSTN, analogous to Voice over IP. Fax over IP is also called Web Fax Services, Internet Fax Services, or IP Fax.

Fax over IP
Fax over IP is the routing of fax messages (partially) over the internet while integration with your existing IP based infrastructure and PABX. Fax over IP is an alternative that organizations are exploring as the T.38 IP fax protocol is already builtin in several IP routers such as Cisco, 3Com, Alcatel, etc.
Fax over IP allows enterprises to leverage IP networks for transmitting documents over secure and boardless fax servers. Faxes can be sent from the desktop where the content travels in a digital form till it reaches the PSTN endpoint gateway. Fax over IP integrates well with existing applications and works with multi-function devices.

Next steps
Want to learn more? Download the Fax over IP white paper.
Want to test Fax over IP at no cost? Please send us an e-mail so we can assist you, please include the day time phone number where we can contact you.

More information on Fax over IP
For more information on Fax over IP follow one of these links, they provide good additional information:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IP_faxing.html
http://www.cantata.com/applications/fax/faxoverip/index.cfm
http://www.eicon.com/worldwide/solutions/FoIP_reduceExpenditure.htm