FaxSav aims to expand IP fax nets

Sending faxes over an IP network can be a low-cost option for users - especially if a large portion of fax traffic is heading overseas. But in order to keep costs down, fax transmissions should stay "on net" as long as possible.

FaxSav and NetXchange Communications have struck a deal aimed at keeping fax traffic on IP networks until it reaches the customers' sites, thereby saving users the most money.

FaxSav is teaming with NetXchange to extend the reach of FaxSav's IP fax service, says Jeremy Soref, director of marketing at NetXchange.

NetXchange has developed an API, called Internet Xchange for Fax, which makes its fax server gateway software interoperable with FaxSav's network.

How it works

ISPs that deploy NetXchange's fax gateway will be able to link directly to FaxSav's network so users can send and receive faxes almost entirely over an IP network, Soref says.

FaxSav is the only ISP that offers the NetXchange technology, for now at least.

In some cases, especially with fax-to-fax transmissions, fax data is sent as far as possible over the Internet or over an IP fax service provider's network, such as FaxSav's. Traffic is then transferred from a fax server gateway onto the public switched telephone network until it reaches its final fax machine destination.

By teaming with NetXchange, FaxSav's services will be available to more business users almost immediately, says Maury Kauffman, managing partner at the Kauffman Group, a Cherry Hill, N.J.-based consulting firm that focuses on enhanced fax technologies.

FaxSav: (732) 906-2000; NetXchange: (408) 248-6200

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