Do you use fax modem?

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What is fax modem?

A fax modem is a device which enables your personal computer to transmit and receive electronic documents as faxes. It looks like a regular data modem apart from it is designed to transmit documents to and from a fax machine or another fax modem. Some, but not all, fax modems do double duty as regular modems. As with regular modems, fax modems can be either internal or external, and the former ones are often called fax boards. As for the documents, it must be in an electronic form before we send them through a fax modem, and the documents you receive are likewise stored in the same form. Instead of fax machines, fax modems enables you attached your fax to your computer which makes things easy and convenient. As long as your computer insert a fax modem the only thing left is to backup it with a communication software which could be download anywhere in the internet.
What is the advantage compared to fax machines?
Compared to the fax machines, fax modems offer us the following four main advantages:
Document quality: the document quality transmitted by fax modems is always superior for it was in electronic form, especially the images.
Speed: fax modems can transmit documents at a very high speed thanks to the steady internet, whereas the fax machine can not even touch its tail.
Convenience: with a fax machine, you have to print the document, but the fax modem allows you send it directly.
Price: fax modems are smaller than fax machines not only in its size but also in price. Besides, fax modems require less maintenance
What to do with it?
Fax modems are not extraordinary machines; they are as simple as the regular modems that have the function of sending and receiving fax.
First of all, be sure that your fax modem driver are installed properly, you can use the very popular and free Microsoft Fax software to send and receive fax. And a telephone line is needed for you to connect your computer to the telephone. After everything is done, you can start sending and receiving fax through your computer without a fax machine.

RingCentral’s Fax Service

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One technology, in particular, that is growing in popularity is Internet fax, according to RingCentral, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of Internet phone systems for small businesses.With it, companies can send and receive faxes through the Internet without a fax machine. And since users receive documents online, they can read them on from their monitors.

Here’s the best part. Users can decide whether or not to print the fax, helping them save paper, ink, hardware, electricity and the impact on mother Earth.

“Two things really help our customers to not only be eco friendly, but save money and provide and better level of service to their customers,” Praful Shah,RingCentral’s ( News – Alert) vice president of strategy, told TMCnet in an interview. “First, enabling employees to work efficiently from different locations, like home offices, [helps them] avoid necessary travel. Second, our Internet fax capability automatically delivers all incoming faxes as attachments via e-mail that dramatically reduces waste of paper, and at the same time delivers the fax no matter where the person is.”

Beyond the feel-good environmental benefits of Internet fax, the technology offers significant savings, RingCentral said in a recent blog. For example, RingCentral’s most popular service is a hosted cloud-based business phone system plan called “RingCentral Professional, which of offers auto-receptionist, multiple extensions, voice mail boxes and Internet fax starting at $9.99 a month.

Shah said Internet fax is “significantly cost effective” and also helps users improve their efficiency.

“A business does need a separate fax line,” he said. “There is no need to buy a fax machine, no need to buy paper, and most important, faxes get delivered to wherever the recipient may be, rather than near a fax machine.”

RingCentral Fax over Internet service is easy to use. Users compose and send a fax online to any fax machine in the U.S., Canada, or international destination using RingCentral’s Internet fax software interface. Faxes can also be sent from any e-mail account,Microsoft ( News – Alert) Office program, or any Windows program.

Upgraded High Performance V.17 Fax Modem Software from GAO Research

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Toronto, Canada – GAO Research Inc. (www.GAOResearch.com) has upgraded its widely-deployed V.17 Fax Modem software which implements the ITU-T V.17 recommendation for a two-wire modem for facsimile applications with data rates up to 14,400bps. This international standard defines the operating sequences and modulation techniques to be used in high speed fax applications.
GAO’s V.17 fax software operates at a frequency of 1800Hz and supports V.24 interchange circuits. QAM is used for the channel with synchronous line transmission at 2400 baud. Exchange of rate sequences is provided during start-up to establish the data-rate, coding, and any other special facilities. The trellis coding rates are from 7200 to 14000bps and modulation rate is 2400 symbols/s. All GAO software are subject to the most stringent quality control procedures, which is reflected in its well structured code, detailed design documentation, and well-defined design and test plans. This ensures ease of integration into the user’s system, easy maintenance, and a smooth upgrade path for next-generation products.
GAO V.17 soft fax modem solution can operate within a multi-tasking environment or as a stand-alone task and is optimized for fixed-point arithmetic. It supports most commercial analog front ends (AFE) as well as proprietary discrete DAAs with codecs, depending upon the application. It can be integrated with other GAO data modems, telephony, speech compression, and fax relay solutions for use in various applications.
The software supports commonly used processors such as TI C5000 & C6000 series DSPs, ARM processors and ADI DSPs and OS such as Windows, VxWorks, and Linux.
About GAO Research Inc.
GAO Research Inc. is a recognized international leading provider of communications software to telecom and electronics companies and provides the most comprehensive and unique suite of modem, fax, telephony, speech software, VoIP, FoIP, fax relay and fax/modem/voice relay software for embedded applications for DSP and microprocessors.

Windows 7: A Rival Worth Waiting For

There is no secret for all that we have a new Windows 7. My friends devided into two groups, who like it or who don`t. What about you? Have you tried it and what do you think of it?

There are no big announcements from Apple today. No new products, nothing special happening. But it’s a special day nonetheless.

Because today, the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has finally declared Windows a match for OS X.

Many of you will know that Walt’s opinions are widely read, and are likely to sway a lot of people in their computer-purchasing decisions.

In recent years, he has consistently said that Mac OS X is a better choice than Windows, either XP or Vista. But with the imminent release of Windows 7 (on October 22nd), that comes to an end.

Walt writes:

“After using pre-release versions of Windows 7 for nine months, and intensively testing the final version for the past month on many different machines, I believe it is the best version of Windows Microsoft (MSFT) has produced.

“In recent years, I, like many other reviewers, have argued that Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is much better than Windows. That’s no longer true. I still give the Mac OS a slight edge because it has a much easier and cheaper upgrade path; more built-in software programs; and far less vulnerability to viruses and other malicious software, which are overwhelmingly built to run on Windows. Now, however, it’s much more of a toss-up between the two rivals.”

Walt’s opinions matter. He’s one of the few tech journalists that Steve Jobs is prepared to talk to in person. And yet his reviews are always fair and unbiased. So when Walt says a Windows product is on a par with OS X, you can be sure that there will be people inside Apple Inc taking notice.

What does that mean for the rest of us? In the short term, nothing much: Snow Leopard is only just out, and it will be the standard OS X for some time to come.

Perhaps it will mean some more aggressive marketing on Apple’s part. The “There’s an app for that” campaign has been a success for the iPhone, so perhaps we might see some TV ads promoting the benefits of OS X software too.

Of course, another tactic would be to steal Windows 7’s thunder by releasing something completely new, something that changes whole industries, like the iPod did a few years ago. Something like a tablet device, perhaps.

Enterprise Fax over IP Featured Article

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Enterprise fax over IP adoption is largely following businesses’ migration to voice over IP, yet vast opportunities for VoIP penetration are occurring in the small and medium business space and not just the enterprise segment.

“VoIP is one of the mostly used ways for sending voice, data, document, and videos and SMBs are no exception. We are finding that our FoIP business among SMBs is rapidly growing in large part because of the benefits they receive and cost savings,” according to Matthew Brine, vice president of fax and document distribution group of Ontario-based Open Text Corp, an enterprise software company. Open Text has the market leading fax software called Fax Server, RightFax Edition and has sold over 100,000 fax servers worldwide.

Brine said SMBs that utilize Fax over IP for securely transmitting business critical documents can realize benefits such as:

· A single IP network is much less expensive to maintain than separate infrastructures for data, voice and video;

· A single IP network is less expensive and less complicated to expand; and

· A single IP network simplifies the process of integrating fax, data, voice, and video for business applications.

Additional SMB benefits of fax over IP include: the ability to leverage their existing IP investment by utilizing an infrastructure – cabling, switches, hubs, routers – that is already in place; eliminating the need to purchase, maintain or replace expensive fax server cards; the ability to scale their fax management infrastructure without additional hardware costs; implement fax management in a less costly virtualized environment where key resources can be shared across multiple applications and services; and the ability to send and receive faxes from anywhere on their IP network – whether it be LAN or WAN – without incurring call charges.

Company officials say that some of the benefits of Open Text Fax Server, RightFax Edition, include automation of document delivery and receipt and eliminating paper-handling and reducing opportunities for unauthorized view or usage of financial or healthcare information.