As long as the fax machine has been around, providers of “business-telephone lines-over-the-Internet” have struggled to deal with the old fax machine. If you listen to the Unified Communications vendors (present company included), we struggle with how to include faxing in the savings equation. Although the promise of savings of SIP based communications to replace your legacy phone service is probably the most exciting catalyst for Unified Communications – fax has been “outside the scope of possible savings”. The problem with faxing is not that it doesn’t work over IP networks – it just hasn’t worked well enough.
Fax-over-IP comes in a few flavors: They include faxing from the plain-old fax machine; faxing from email; faxing from your PC; and now, faxing from your fax server. The latter three (email, PC and fax server), have progressed nicely. That is not the case with faxing from your plain-old fax machine. Converting a paper based fax to IP just hasn’t worked well.
A little background on fax-over-IP. Faxing requires the transmission of data in an orderly and synchronous way. Unlike voice, there is little if any room for error on the network – no “bumps” in the road. If you have ever experienced a brief “blip” while on a voice-over-IP call (things we call latency, jitter and packet loss), although annoying, it does not bring the call to a halt. Imagine every tenth fax, you were missing a page – or even half a page – because that same blip you had ignored on your voice call – sent your fax machine into a tailspin.
That may not be the case with faxing. Why should anyone care that fax-over-IP is problematic? Why not just stay with the plain-old fax telephone line? Well, it’s bleeding you dry. At EtherSpeak, we estimate the average office is over-spending by about $500 per fax machine each year. In fact, we know you are spending too much on fax.
How many $500 bills are lying around office getting eaten at a rate of about $10 per week starting this New Year? So, the savings is real – but what about the quality – who is going to fix the fax-over-IP so we can all start using those $500 bills on something better for our businesses?
Well, we fixed it. We developed a super-reliable solution (we’d go as far and say UBER-reliable) for your fax machines for as little at $12.95 / month. If you want to start saving an estimated $500 / year on every fax machine you have – give your iEtherFax reseller a call and ask for a demonstration of the iEtherFax for fax machines service – and start putting those $500 bills back in your company’s pocket. Reliability….check. Savings…check, Ease-of-use…CHECK.
iEtherFax provides an easy, effective and (some might say) dirt-cheap way to connect your team while almost eliminating your expense for fax. Imagine one solution for fax machines, fax-to-email; fax-to-server all in one secure, reliable and cost-effective communications-as-a-service offering from EtherSpeak, the industry leader in standards-based IP communications solutions.
For more information, contact your iEtherFax rep today for a demonstration – or visit us on the web at http://www.ietherfax.com.
Sincerely,
Neil Darling
(703) 221-9999
Now we're EtherSpeakin' 