To put it simply, “Fax 2 email” means sending and receiving faxes through email.

However in order to understand the technology involved better, we have to understand how various other forms of faxing work and how this form of faxing differs from them. Continue reading →

Using Fax for Asterisk, you can send faxes from your desktop using your standard email client without any need to install any software on your desktop. It endows you with the ability to send and receive faxes to and from TDM and IP channels. It includes analog and VoIP fax capabilities to Asterisk VoIP PBX and develops fax-on-demand, fax-broadcast, desktop fax and fax gateway applications and services. Fax for Asterisk also provides 14400bps PSTN faxing via DAHDI-compatible telephony boards and T.38 fax over SIP. You can add the Fax for Asterisk software on a hosted Asterisk PBX. Continue reading →

While e-commerce communication technologies have proliferated in recent years, Fax has remained a predominant day-to-day messaging tool in today’s Business world. Fax is one of the best options whenever businesses require a secure, confirmed, and immediate delivery or an exact facsimile of the source document. As long as these needs exist, fax will continue to play a vital role in the exchange of business information. While a fax machine continues to act as a strategic communication channel, many organizations prefer to use fax servers. Fax technologies offer substantial opportunities to streamline business processes and reduce costs. Continue reading →

Alcatel-Lucent is the largest PBX IP Fax Server vendor in the world with revenues equivalent to about $20 million in 2009. The company offers a software-only FoIP (Fax over IP) fax server, which the company says yields a significant return on investment and costs appreciably less than leading legacy fax server solutions. SagemCom provides Alcatel-Lucent with this IP fax server solution on an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) basis and SagemCom has proven its market leadership in FoIP by leading the industry for the last five years (per Davidson Consulting market research). The OmniTouch IP Fax Server integrates seamlessly with VoIP (voice over IP) technology and the T.38 fax relay capabilities of leading Alcatel-Lucent VoIP gateways. Continue reading →

GFI Software, an international developer of network security, content security and messaging software, offers its leading fax server solution GFI FAXmaker. Version 14 now integrates with Microsoft Exchange as well as with the Dialogic SR140 FoIP solution, and offers support for 64-bit Microsoft operation systems. GFI FAXmaker is a cost-effective solution which minimizes the need for manual faxing by using the existing email infrastructure to send and receive faxes. Continue reading →