Today, Quadrant Software will launch QuadraDocV, a new frontier for Internet communications that introduces fax over IP (FoIP) possibilities in IBM (News - Alert) IShops.
The new FoIP solution will run inside VMWare, a virtualization environment, to deliver fax capabilities Quadrant has been known for through its FastFax line. The introduction of this solution will lessen the need for customers to have analog phone lines and reduce clutter within an office.
The days of facsimile services running on POTS will soon be over.
FoIP was modeled after VoIP, and has been gaining ground within the business community as a viable technology that not only reduces clutter, but lightens a firm’s footprint on the global environment by reducing wasted paper.
Companies like Cisco (News - Alert) and Avaya have already been putting their flag on VoIP for some years now, establishing infrastructures for enterprises to viably use the technology. Adding FoIP on top of these infrastructures is as easy as cutting butter.
"We're excited about it because a good portion of our existing customers, and 30 to 40 percent of prospects, are looking for a virtual device as opposed to a fax appliance,” said Steve Woodard, CEO of Quadrant Software. "They've made it clear that they don't want another hardware appliance in their data center."
Until now, Quadrant's been making quite the killing with its FastFax hardware-based facsimile devices. These appliances were basically computers inside a box with Dialogic (News - Alert) fax cards and Quadrant's own software. Customers sent faxes and received them through email clients like Outlook.
Today, QuadraDocV gives its customers the same capacities offered by FastFax without the hassles of actual FastFax hardware and phone lines. The only thing users need to hook up FoIP is a VoIP switch – or in its absence, a gateway that allows the use a normal phone line.
Edited by Braden Becker