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CLICK HERE to return to main NetCFax page... NETWORKED SOLUTION IDEAS We are quite often asked by our customers how they can use a networked fax system such as NetCFax to save the cost of long distance or even international telephone calls when sending what are as we all know rather slow and therefore expensive fax transmissions. Well, there are many different scenarios that can achieve this, and NetCFax offers a low cost and highly effective way to do so. This is only possible because unlike most other fax systems, NetCFax uses the industry standard TCP and UDP protocols for all communications between the fax server and the various fax clients, which means fax clients can connect to fax servers across any network that supports TCP, which of course, includes the Internet itself, so providing the client can connect to the fax server it wants to work with, anywhere in the world, it can use that server in exactly the same way as if it was on your own local network. (Quite naturally this assumes that the NetCFax server and the various NetCFax clients have some form of standard internet access, or possibly a WAN or other similar wide area connectivity via TCP)
1 - LONG DISTANCE PROBLEM (International) CLICK HERE 2 - LONG DISTANCE PROBLEM Lets assume that your organization has offices in different Counties, States or Cities, and you want to be able to send faxes to other people who are located in those same areas, without having to pay the long distance or Interstate (TOLL) charges every time you send a fax. 1 - SOLUTION - LONG DISTANCE PROBLEM (in Country)
All that is needed to implement the above (based on having offices in various major cities in the US) is to have a NetCFax server installation in your office in each of the Cities shown. Then you provide all users of the NetCFax client systems with the Internet name or the IP address of each one of these servers. These are simply added to the list of available servers in their NetCFax client installations, (in very much the same way that different Internet access gateway addresses are stored in their mail clients).
To send a fax using a local call, all that any NetCFax client needs to do is to connect to the Internet, using their NetCFax client to connect and login to the NetCFax server closest to the required fax destination, then create and send the fax, and of course, it will be sent (across the internet) to the NetCFax server in that remote office, and that NetCFax server will send the fax to the final recipients fax system, using a local call. Because it is very possible and even likely in this scenario that the time zones between the Fax server machine and the fax client may be different by several hours, NetCFax is intelligent enough to handle faxes that are marked to be sent immediately correctly, so that the remote server will send them as soon as received despite the time differences. If you set the fax to be sent out at a later time/date, then of course you must allow for any time differences between the two systems, which is made very easy by having the client always use the Fax servers date/time for scheduling, rather than the local date/time of the fax client. Because NetCFax uses the Internet standard TCP protocol for all communications between the fax server and the clients, connections can even be made by notebook/laptop computers, allowing them to use ALL of the faxing facilities of NetCFax wherever they happen to be at the time. CLICK HERE to return to main NetCFax page... Description of the above schematic This shows an imaginary organization that has offices in Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and New York. Each office has a NetCFax server installed on a machine that is "visible/accessible" to internet connections, and each will be licensed to handle the number of concurrent client NetCFax systems that are likely to be connecting to them at the same time, (this is required to allow network user access accounts to be created on each of the NetCFax servers). So lets assume that someone in the sales office in Miami wants to send a fax to someone in LA, and that recipient is located in the greater LA area, not in your office. All they do is to run their NetCFax client, select and login to the NetCFax server in the LA office, and once they have created the fax, the NetCFax client will send it off across the Internet directly to the NetCFax server in LA. The fax is received in LA via the Internet (TOTALLY FREE). The NetCFax server in LA then only has to make a FREE local call and send the fax to the recipients fax number, which is typically a FREE local call. We think the chart above illustrates this concept quite well ? As can be seen each office can connect to any of the other offices at any time of the day or night using a standard Internet connection, and they can therefore use the services of any of the NetCFax servers in any of those offices. In fact this might even be an engineer or sales person out on the road, or anyone else that needs to do this using their laptop or notebook, or of course you can even do the same thing from your own home as long as you have an internet connection. The only actual phone call made in this scenario is that made by the NetCFax server (in LA in this example) that receives the fax from the fax client system, and it then sends the fax via its fax modem using a local or short distance call (unless you are using a dial up Internet connection of course).
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NETCFAX - Fully networked fax system
