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provide free information about the Fax Over IP revolutionary technologies and services. Please feel free to browse
our different sections, where you'll find a lot of interesting information about this exciting
technology.
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What's FoIP?
FoIP (pronounced as separate letters) Short for fax over Internet Protocol, the technology that enables the
internetworking
of fax machines with a packet-based network. Using FoIP, a fax is transmitted via the Internet rather than the
traditional method of sending faxes via the telephone line. Using FoIP, the digital data from the fax machine is
separated into packets for transmission (as opposed to the traditional method of converting the fax data into analog to
be sent over the PSTN). The digital data requires less bandwidth than the analog data, so FoIP is more efficient than
analog faxing.
FoIP is the next logical step to VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), a technology that allows
almost everyone with a broadband internet connection to use it as a low-cost phone line. In VoIP your voice is
converted to data packets that are sent throught the Internet (providing huge savings since it doesn't use the PSTN -
Public Switched Telephone Network) and converted back to audio on the receiving end.
VoIP is everywhere and has
turned into a
multi-billion industry, so the next step will be faxing over the Internet.
Fax-to-email and Email-to-fax services Even when regular fax-to-email and email-to-fax services aren't exactly
based on FoIP (a lot of them simply forward your email to a virtual printer and from there to a fax-modem-like device
that transmits the fax through the PSTN), we decided that it would be interesting to add those technologies here, since
even when they are not based on FoIP they still provide huge savings to their users. |
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