What is FoIP?
FoIP stands for Fax over Internet Protocol. FoIP allows you to send fax data using the internet instead of using a phone line. The Benefits of FoIP. Using FoIP organizations save money through reduced communications and infrastructure costs. FoIP advantages include: – combining voice, data, and fax into one system – leveraging the backbone of the internet for fax communications – greatly reduced long distance telephone tolls – reducing the amount of hardware and telephony equipment to manage – eliminating the need for back-up boards – shared fax server resources throughout the network – lower total equipment maintenance and management costs – eliminating long distance PSTN charges on fax traffic between office local calling areas – eliminating the need to deploy and maintain remote fax servers Brooktrout FoIP with Rightfax Brooktrout FoIP is a fax board that processes faxes at twice the speed of standard fax machines. When using Brooktrout in conjunction with a Rightfax system , docume
FoIP is an acronym for Fax over Internet Protocol. In short, using FoIP allows you to send a FAX transmission without paying a dime. Traditionally, a fax transmission resembles a phone call, in that a number is dialed. The difference between a fax and a phone call, though, is that a fax transmits data electronically, whereas a phone call transmits only talk. Nevertheless, when you send a fax, you are still dialing a number. And if you are dialing long distance, then you pay a long-distance charge. FoIP changes that by eliminating the long-distance charge. Specifically, you send the fax data using an Internet connection as your phone. Since all you need is that Internet connection, you pay only what you would normally pay to access the Internet. Even if you have a dial-up Internet connection, you still only need to call a local phone number in order to connect. No matter how many pages you send in your fax transmission or how many megabytes your fax is, you still pay nothing. Technicall
FOIP, or Fax-over-IP, relates to sending and receiving faxes over a network (often the internet). The acronym is very similar to VOIP (Voice-over-IP) and has probably gained more traction through its similarity to VOIP. Although FOIP and VOIP rely on many of the same technologies, there are important differences. For example, during a VOIP call, if one or both parties lose some of the audio information, this might not even be noticed, and even a noticeably degraded VOIP call can be understood and useful. However, in some FOIP implementations, losing any of the data can result in an unrecoverable error, sometimes meaning a fax image comes through partially or in a corrupted way. Increasingly, VOIP/FOIP hardware and software support technologies to help mitigate the caveats of early FOIP tech. Protocols like T.38, when implemented end-to-end, can maintain much higher reliability than rockier “conventional real-time over a VOIP connection” approaches.
FoIP is a deviation from voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) as it makes use of a new protocol (T.38) instead of a voice codec. However, both VoIP and FoIP have session management features in common in that both have connection, disconnection and negotiation stages. In VoIP the data is audio and is sent over an audio compression codec for example G.117a which is a lossy compression scheme: a compression method whereby data that is compressed and then decompressed may well be different from the original, but is “close enough” to be useful in some way. In FoIP the data is T.30 fax data instead of audio and T.30 data does not make use of a lossy compression scheme. Since T.30 data is quite compressed in itself, there is no need for compression but mostly data integrity, and as illustrated in the diagram below, FoIP uses a protocol called T.38 to transfer fax data over IP. The fax session A fax session is a standardized way of transferring images via a communications medium in real-time. T
