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New VoIP-Based Fax Phone Adapter from FaxBack

Thursday November 5, 2009

Faxing over IP isn't as developed as voice communication, and VoIP faxing devices are rare. As Mike Oliszewski, CTO for FaxBack puts it, "The issues associated with connecting fax machines via SIP T.38-based ATAs still pose a serious challenge for carriers seeking to migrate their internet connected customers to VoIP." They have therefore introduced an ATA (commonly known as a phone adapter), for faxing over IP using the T.38 protocol. The difference between this ATA and non-fax ones is that, beyond the VoIP functionalities, it embeds the necessary software and intelligence for reliably connecting fax machines and computers to a range of common networks. Read more

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