Comments on: Implementing a Fax Server in a VoIP Environment

By: Kevin Hodak

Kevin Hodak — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:15:16 +0000

Thank you for your comment, Ronnie. When I started at GFI, I was quite surprised to find out that a fax server solution was one of our leading products. Six years later, it is still going strong. While one-off desktop faxing is dying out and being replaced by email or multi-function devices, fax is still very heavily used for integrated business faxing. The ability to communicate with others that are still using fax as a primary means of communication, the realtime notification of sucess or failure, and more secure transmission medium are all keeping fax alive and well.

By: Kevin Hodak

Kevin Hodak — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:11:09 +0000

@Akiko and Richard – Thank you for your feedback. FoIP is definitely the way that our customers are moving to implement our fax server solution. In addition to eliminating the paper, FoIP allows for other green benefits beyond traditional fax servers. The biggest of these is support for virtualization as organizations can now eliminate the physical server requirements of an analog or digital fax server.

By: Jill Crinn

Jill Crinn — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:49:28 +0000

I also think that faxes fall into the group of VCR and other technology of the past but since there are still users who stick with fax, let’s give them a better way to use it. FoIP is this better way. If I were to buy faxing capacity, I would certainly go for it because all the other options are so last century.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:17:12 +0000

Faxing isn’t dead yet – it’s still a preferred method of communication for a lot of businesses.

The English Premier League and NHL certainly like the fax machine for their respective transfer window and trade deadlines.

By: Ronnie Martz

Ronnie Martz — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:38:02 +0000

I have to disagree with Akiko, FoIP is definitely a nice thing to have, but it seems more like the last gasp of a dying technology to me. We could eliminate the fax machine entirely using networked printer/scanners with a simple station-routing/privacy-locking feature. Faxes were once incredible technology, these days they just seem redundant.

By: Richard Mensa

Richard Mensa — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:55:07 +0000

True, fax VOIP is the future of mobile communications. I can’t wait to see its full potential once it will be fully integrated to / with cloud computing.

Environment buffs like Al Gore will truly appreciate FoIP. Lots and lots of papers and printer / fax machine inks can be saved. However, small and medium sized businesses are the true winners of FoIP. They can save thousands of dollars of hardware costs.

By: Akiko_

Akiko_ — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:37:51 +0000

This is the future. The FoIP technology is here to stay for good. The company I’m currently with is slowly using and migrating to FoIP for its fax system. It offers both over-head cost convenience and faster communications on our part.

FOIP requires less hardware and less software to use. It’s also environment-friendly because (almost) no papers are used. Our boss likes it so much because through FOIP, he can receive fax messages almost anywhere.