Thursday 1 November 2012

Broadcast Fax: What it is?

Faxing facility over cloud has many advantages. It has modified the traditional fax system and is providing all networking benefits that can be applied to the system. There are several such advantages added.  One of them is broadcasting the document. Broadcasting refers to sending a single document to multiple recipients.  This might be on parallel grounds with scanning documents once and then sending it in bulk.

Broadcast Faxing is a facility provided by a third party service provider. The organizations that provide service across cloud provide this feature. This service provider makes use of the fax server technology to provide this feature. It thus allows transmission of one document to thousands of recipients. Fax server is must for this purpose.

Fax server is the one that handles incoming and outgoing documents. It is loaded with software that helps managing the digital to analog signal conversion for transmission over phone lines of traditional facsimile machine. Fax servers are generally working in store and forward mode. They are capable of managing number of mails at one time. Hence whenever broadcasting they are used. In this case the files can be converted to the right format.

Broadcast fax service allows client to manage their campaigns with help of web interface. In this case campaign term is used to denote transmission of document to several receivers. For this client must make the list of receivers for given document. This list is then checked with document by the server and then transmitted. The client can also schedule the mailing time for the document to avoid peak hours or for transmission on specific day and time.

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