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Productivity and Cost Savings with Microsoft Shared Fax and Brooktrout
Technology Intelligent Fax Boards
January, 2004 - This whitepaper outlines
the cost savings, security benefits and productivity enhancements
that can result from implementing a Shared Fax network fax server
solution. It also discusses why intelligent fax boards from Brooktrout
Technology, the certified fax board choice from Microsoft, are the
best choice for your Shared Fax server application and how features
on Brooktrout’s fax boards can further increase productivity
and reduce costs when compared to a standard Class 1 or 2 modem.
Why Intelligent Fax Boards are the Smart Choice
PDF
March, 2003 - A myth exists that
all fax boards and fax modems are essentially the same. If they
all send and receive at relatively the same speed, then all fax
phone bills are the same and what else could matter? But fax technology
can be surprising: for example, intelligent fax boards can send
at 2 to 3 times the speed of most Class 1 and 2 modems. To add to
this, even by sending at the same speed of 14.4 Kbps, Class 1 and
2 fax modems typically triple page transmission time compared to
intelligent fax board throughput!
Three distinct types of fax cards exist: Class 1 fax
modems, Class 2 fax modems, and intelligent fax boards, and each
provides substantially different levels of performance. In the mid-volume
(approximately, 70 four page faxes) scenario presented in this white
paper, intelligent fax boards are shown to reduce life-of-system
fax phone bills by as much as $5,900 over Class 1 and 2 modems.
The reasons why intelligent fax boards provide superior performance
may be obscure—including Modified Modified Read compression,
signal-to-noise ratios, critical timing issues, call progress capabilities
and bit-stuffing, which will be explained later—but they are
no less real to the bottom line for being esoteric.
This paper explains how fax boards differ, how those differences
play out according to fax phone call elements and installed base
capabilities, and why intelligent fax boards are a superior choice
for virtually all but the very lowest-volume computer fax applications.
The paper also provides a checklist of items to consider when purchasing
intelligent fax boards. PDF
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