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facsBridge T37FSP for cisco Users
There are numerous benefits of paperless desktop faxing. Fax over IP (FoIP)-enabled cisco routers, commonly used in corporate environment, can serve this purpose.
T.37 email-to-fax gateway built into cisco fax-enabled router facilitates integration of fax services with the VoIP network. Say you have 2801 (or similar) cisco router with E1/T1 ISDN PRI module, - how do you make use of it for outbound faxes submission via T.37 gateway? The gateway accepts only a TIFF file format as an email attachment, and the file structure must be compliant with the gateway. This represents a challenge for software integrators.
There are fax service solutions to interface cisco T.37 gateway, like cisco Unity IP Fax Service (Unity's faxmail feature) or third party Exchange fax connectors. Neither of this solutions are integrated with Windows Fax Service.
facsBridge T37FSP can be considered an inexpensive alternative fully integrated with the Windows Fax Service. Our product is able to render a fax document as a TIFF image compatible with cisco fax-enabled routers. This way the driver unlocks fax-enabled capabilities of the cisco routers and brings integration with Windows Fax Service.
The benefits of native integration with Windows XP/2000/2003/2008 Fax Service / Fax Printer are
- Cost-effective solution to utilize off the shelf Windows Fax Printer
- No need for 3rd party printer driver or expensive software
- Rendering ANY printable document as a TIFF image (Note, in contrast with Internet Fax Service Providers only TIFF format is acceptable by cisco T.37 gateway)
- Intuitive Fax Console to organise and monitor faxes
- Centralized configuration and administration in Windows Server/SBS 2003
- Fax merge from MS Word availability
- Provision to send faxes programmatically using Windows COM interfaces
- Inbound faxes routing extension
Receiving faxes (fax to email) with fax-enabled cisco models usually does not represent a challenge as embedded on-ramp T.37 gateway can be configured to deliver inbound fax-mail to a specified mailbox. However, consider F2Erouter, a part of the facsBridge suite, for advanced applications. F2Erouter is used for inbound faxes routing in Windows 2003 Fax Service, that forwards received faxes to an appropriate email address based on called fax number (available from Direct Inward Dialing DID or ISDN PRI). facsBridge F2Erouter is not limited to post-process inbound faxes received by T37FSP only.
cisco compatibility is available with Workstation and Enterprise Server licences of facsBridge.
See links on cisco routers T.37 gateway configuration