>>Unless you have a burning need for the actual fax hardcopy, I would use eFax >>for this -- it converts the incoming faxes to PDFs and email them to you.
Art DeKneef nailed it here, eFax is quite expensive. (And no, don't need hardcopy) We used to be with eFax actually; and the bills were about $800 a month - and we always had issues with them. Missing faxes/outages. Brought it in-house for about $2000. That's a sunk cost now, and our monthly SIP/VIOP bill is about $60/Month for the fax lines/usage. It's rock solid, and since its SIP based I can throw the tiny VM anywhere I want (EC2, Onsite, Colo, DR Site), without worried about any circuits. -Sam From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 11:24 PM To: Sam Cayze Subject: Fwd: RE: "Personal" laser printers ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Art DeKneef" <[email protected]> Date: May 6, 2011 6:28 PM Subject: RE: "Personal" laser printers To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Have you ever compared the costs associated with eFax to a dedicated fax server? Sam is talking thousands of faxes per month. The last time I did a few years ago with the amount of employees (40) and the amount of faxes received per employee per month, it was cheaper to put in a dedicated fax server. Paid for itself in about 15 months if I remember correctly. After that is was almost free in that regard. Plus it saved them as a PDF and delivered them directly to the right person. -----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: "Personal" laser printers On 5 May 2011 at 14:06, Sam Cayze wrote: > +1. > Thousands of faxes received here a month. > > >>> Faxing is rare in most environments but there are still a few companies stuck in the 90's. > Unless you know of a way we can more easily have our thousands of independent contractors > send us signed work orders from various retail chains without public computers onsite? Unless you have a burning need for the actual fax hardcopy, I would use eFax for this -- it converts the incoming faxes to PDFs and email them to you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
