Fax Featured Article

After years of incubation within the confines of the enterprise IP network, IP-based fax has recently entered a period of rapid and increasingly broad adoption. Business users are now pushing beyond the enterprise network, which uses on-premises gateways–let's call that IP Fax Phase I-and are now directly connecting with the IP service provider via SIP trunking or direct SIP peering—IP Fax Phase II–obviating the need for the enterprise gateway.

Yes, prior to some recent improvements, BladeWare had a lot in common with ATAs and gateways because of BladeWare's support of both T.38 and G.711 pass-through fax. Depending on the network, all of these network elements could exhibit some not-so-good outbound-fax completion rates.