{"id":28182,"date":"2011-03-29T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=28182"},"modified":"2016-06-27T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T18:02:15","slug":"faxing-is-alive-and-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/faxing-is-alive-and-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Faxing is Alive and Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Sims over at <a title=\"TMC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TMC<\/a> has written an intersting article titled &#8220;<a title=\"Fax: Still Necessary for Business, But VoIP Migration Issues Persist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/channels\/enterprise-sbc\/articles\/158491-fax-still-necessary-business-but-voip-migration-issues.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Fax: Still Necessary for Business, But VoIP Migration Issues Persist<\/a>&#8221; where he relays an interview done by TMC&#8217;s Erik Linask with Quentin Dible, the VP of Operations for FaxBack.<\/p>\n<p>Sims explains that while faxing is an important and sometimes preferred communication tool for businesses, it is often overlooked.\u00a0 However based on the interview he references, lately there seems to be an increased interest in faxing, even more so than before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dible agreed, saying one of the big pushes for that is when people migrate to VoIP, and they\u2019re still dependent on fax, there are sometimes connection issues. \u201cIt\u2019s been a huge push to make that fax machine that people still need work much better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, it\u2019s a fax <a title=\"Cisco ATA187 Analog Telephone Adapter\" href=\"\/cisco-ata187-i1-a\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Analog Telephone Adaptor');\">Analog Telephone Adaptor <\/a>instead of using SIP, Dible said, to talk across the network.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some <a title=\"fax over ip myths\" href=\"\/fax-over-ip-myths\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'fax over IP myths');\">fax over IP myths<\/a> but it&#8217;s apparent that faxing is not a dead technology and while there may be some integration and reliability concerns, trust us, it&#8217;s possible to converge faxing with your VoIP system.\u00a0\u00a0 We like to recommend FaxxBochs as a highly reliable fax over IP solution.<\/p>\n<p>VoIP faxing can be sensitive and may seem tricky to configure but the <a title=\"smb fax over ip\" href=\"\/smb-fax-over-ip\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'benefits ');\">benefits <\/a>like a single unified network, digital document archiving,\u00a0 lower cost, and remote usage for areas where fax lines are unavailable can be well worth the investment for a business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Sims over at TMC has written an intersting article titled &#8220;Fax: Still Necessary for Business, But VoIP Migration Issues Persist&#8221; where he relays an interview done by TMC&#8217;s Erik Linask with Quentin Dible, the VP of Operations for FaxBack. Sims explains that while faxing is an important and sometimes preferred communication tool for businesses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221,1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-voip","category-voip-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189873,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions\/189873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}