Imagine a world where the fax machines all fly (even making that Jetson’s cartoon vehicle sound).

They come to your desk on command and fly away when you are done, delivering and sending faxes of all sorts. The best part: you are sitting the whole time, barely lifting a finger. What a stress reliever and time saver that would be! Can you relate to this photo? There are five ways to fax in the future, but the future is NOW!

1. FACSys Desktop Client (print to fax)
2. FACSys Mail Printer (email to fax)
3. Email to Fax – with attachments
- Outlook/Exchange
- Lotus Notes
- Groupwise
- SMTP
4. Fax Enabled Applications
- With embedded codes
- With AFMSDK (Active Fax Messaging
Software Developing Kit)
5. Web Agent

The FACSys Desktop Client provides security and economy. Important faxes are no longer left sitting in the open. They are protected in the user’s computer and not left at oldfashioned fax machines for others to see or take by accident. The Desktop is a great time saver because it is the essence of the flying fax machine; it is literally on your desktop. No more wasted time walking to the fax machine, filling out the cover page, dialing the number, feeding paper into the machine, waiting for the confirmation slip and walking back to your desk. Not only that but you can also send multiple faxes at the same time; no need to enter the fax number in ten times. Did we also mention no wasted paper, toner or cost to file or shred the temporary document? Simply print to fax!

With routing tools provided by DID (Direct Inward Dial) telephone service, (also known in the digital world as DNIS (Dialed Number Identification Service)), inbound faxes can be AUTOMATICALLY routed to a single user’s Desktop Client and/or their e-mail inbox, to a workgroup or to a folder on a network share of your choice.

The FACSys Mail Printer allows you to send documents to people’s fax machines and other faxservers by using your email application. No matter what type of email application that you use: Outlook/Exchange, Lotus Notes, GroupWise or SMTP, FACSys uses it and sends documents and attachments right o any fax enabled device. Instead of typing in an email address; you use a fax address which includes the target fax machine’s number and your fax is sent.

Overview: The New V.34 Fax Standard Delivers Significant Cost Savings

Fax continues to be an important and cost-effective means for business-to-business and business-to-customer communications. It is estimated that more than 90% of U.S. businesses have fax machines in the office and sales of fax machines in recent years have maintained a slow, but steady growth rate. Even with the popularity of email, more than 7.5 million fax machines were sold in 2002 alone.

Recent advancements in fax technology have resulted in a renewed interest in fax in the business environment. One such advancement is the introduction of the V.34 fax standard, which can help businesses increase productivity and reduce costs.

What is the V.34 Fax Standard?

The V.34 fax standard was established by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as the standard for full-duplex modems sending and receiving data across phone lines at up to 33.6 Kbps. Compared to the V.17 (14.4 Kbps) standard and 9.6 Kbps fax, V.34 allows faster transmission time per fax page, greater adaptability to varying line conditions, and a reduction in the number of resends per fax. These improvements result in cost savings from reduced fax phone bills.

In order to understand the benefits of the V.34 standard, it is first necessary to understand how a fax call takes place. The first step is the “handshake” that determines key factors in how the fax call will be set up. The handshaking stage enables the sending and receiving fax device (such as a fax machine or fax server) to find a common speed at which the fax can be transmitted. With a 9.6 Kbps or a V.17 modem, the handshaking is done at 300 bps. With V.34 fax, the handshaking is done at a much faster rate of 1,200 bps. The result is that handshaking time is reduced from approximately 16 seconds with 9.6 Kbps and V.17 to seven seconds with V.34.

FACSys® 5 Enterprise leverages the power of the Microsoft® SQL Server (MS-SQL)
platform. Microsoft SQL Express is the native database management system for the
network fax solution. Microsoft SQL Express enables customers to effortlessly make
use of the product ‘out of the box’, while allowing database scalability through
seamless migration to MS-SQL Server if required to meet greater storage demands
or to integrate with existing installations.

In cases where the capacity constraints inherent in SQL Express may be a limiting
factor with regard to a customer’s unique needs, it is recommended that the licensed
server edition, Microsoft SQL Server, be utilized. MS-SQL Server is based on product
licensing, which can be arranged with a Certified Microsoft Product Reseller.

There are several types of licensing models for MS-SQL Server. Each model addresses
different computing environments, from a handful of users or seats, to multiple
server processor models with a large number of users requiring MS-SQL access.

[Bridgewater, NJ - March 30, 2010] - emFAST Inc., publisher of FACSys, today announced that its FACSys Fax Messaging Suite of products are now compliant with the Aura Communication Manager 5.2.1 and Aura Session Manager 5.2.1 from Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services.

The FACSys Fax Messaging Suite is a complete family of products that includes the FACSys EZ appliance and FACSys Foundation and FACSys Enterprise software packages, which allow any user on the network to send and receive faxes through a desktop client, browser, e-mail interface, MFP device or a fax-enabled application. In addition to enhancing user productivity by eliminating legacy fax machines, the FACSys family of products leverages the telecommunications infrastructure for voice and fax to reduce operating costs.

The FACSys Fax Messaging Suite of products has already received the Avaya DevConnect Compliant Award for successful compliance testing with Avaya IP Office version 5 and has now expanded its list to include Avaya Aura Communication Manager 5.2.1 and Session Manager 5.2.1.

"Business customers value Avaya compliance when looking for solutions that integrate with their telephony environment," says Peter Valier, FACSys Product Manager, emFAST Inc. "Avaya's adoption of the T.38 FoIP protocol has allowed customers to leverage their investment in their communications infrastructure to deploy fax as well as voice – more quickly, more easily and more cost-effectively than ever before."