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5 November 2012

We've been discussing the future of fax technology in our last blog entries.  We've demonstrated just how critical good audio quality is to traditional faxing and why recent telephony developments such as VoIP are so problematic for fax.  We've explained why present attempts to cope with those recent developments, such as T.38, are not a reliable solution.  We've discussed how fax must become decoupled from voice communications.  And in our last blog entry we explained that on-line fax service providers will play an important role in moving forward by bridging the gap between phone network connectivity and internet connectivity.  For these reasons Mainpine has launched its own on-line fax service.

19 October 2012

In our last blog we discussed the present and future need to decouple fax communications from voice communications.  In the past, when the only network connecting most homes and businesses was the telephone network, driving fax communications on the telephone network through voice communications was necessary.  However, in modern times many homes and businesses have two different networks connecting them: telephone and internet.  Indeed, some are still only connected to one network, but increasingly that one network is the internet and not the telephone network.

2012-07-10

The proliferation and ubiquity of the internet have brought about an upending of several industries.  For example, many newspapers and magazines have been completely replaced by on-line versions.  The postal service has transitioned away from being strictly a letter carrying service and expanded package and advertisement delivery services.  Music distribution has moved away from physical media towards on-line download services.  Likewise, movies and television distribution are transitioning towards internet media.

2012-06-08

So once you have well-functioning hardware such as the IQ Express and well-functioning software such as Mainpine's IQFSP with Windows Fax Service or HylaFAX+, what is left that could possibly go wrong for reliable fax operations?  Just as important to fax reliablity as the hardware and software is the line audio quality delivering the fax audio to the modem.