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IP Fax Overview

Businesses looking to enhance their productivity, collaboration and ROI have a new tool with IP Fax server solutions. IP Fax helps leverage IP telephony and Unified Communications systems. With IP Fax, organizations of all sizes can use e-mail-based, desktop faxing and fax outsourcing. To receive the full benefits of the UC landscape, companies need to integrate IP Fax communication as part of their information technology solution. Check out the IP Fax channel here on TMCnet.

IP Fax Podcasts

TMC's Erin Harrison speaks with Sagemcom's John Nikolopoulos and Alan Percy from AudioCodes.
Sagemcom's Sabrina Stratford talks to TMCnet about its new reseller agreement with IKON Office Solutions Inc.
In this podcast, TMCnet talks to Sabrina Stratford, a strategic sales manager for Sagemcom, about the value of document management– its key components, value proposition, specific problems addressed by docment management and about one specific solution from Sagemcom, a company best known as a leader in advanced fax server solutions for IP networks. The company’s OpenLine document management solution is a complete plug-and-play system that offers not only enterprise fax server capabilities but also workflow optimization, document management and archive capabilities for security and audit traceability.
With an eye toward cost effective solutions and efficiency, businesses today are increasingly deploying IP fax technology. But companies have very different needs. TMCnet spoke with Sagemcom’s Matthew Miller, product manager, and Sabrina Stratford, strategic partner manager, to chat about the features and differentiators of the company’s XMediusFAX 6.5 and Open Line PR 10.0 products. The podcast also highlights the products’ complementary aspects to fulfill markets needs.
Now more than ever, companies are looking for cost-effective communications tools. And one that is growing in popularity is Microsoft Exchange 2010. As more companies announce their association with the unified communications tool, there seems to be some confusion about their role. TMCnet spoke with product manager Matthew Miller and John Nikolopoulos, director of marketing and product management, both of Sagemcom, to clarify some of these points. The podcast also highlights Sagemcom’s Unified Messaging integration with Microsoft Exchange 2010.

IP Fax Blog

There has been a premature rush to declare fax dead and the reality is fax is alive and while it is declining, it is still a strong business for companies helping the transition from fax to fax over IP and especially T.38. Yes, just as IP is transforming communications, the newspaper and television businesses, it is changing the way companies fax. And as you probably know, one of the primary reasons companies use this medium is to send legally binding documents quickly and efficiently.
Sagemcom Inc. (Sagem Communications) of Montreal, Canada has been selling advanced fax server solutions for IP networks globally since 2002. Their technology leverages IP telephony and Unified Communications (UC) systems to boost productivity, collaboration activities and overall ROI. At VoiceCon I caught up with Sagem's John Nikolopoulos, Director of Marketing; Corey Wilson, Product Specialist; and Gisele Seto, Marketing Communications Manager.

IP Fax Feature Articles

When you think of cutting-edge technologies, let's face it...fax isn't the first thing that comes to mind. You may think of mobile apps, speech-enabled personal assistants, motion-sensing gaming equipment and others...but not fax.
Recent technology advancements and the push to all-IP have many believing that fax technology has gone the way of the bag phone. In reality, however, faxing is still an important tool in the workforce. What has changed is the way in which we use fax - it is incorporated into the network and delivered as IP fax. The migration toward cloud-based technology has also added a new dynamic to IP fax.
Following the news that Barry University recently started running Sagemcom's XMedius Fax over IP on Microsoft Windows, Sagemcom and Alcatel-Lucent have teamed up to launch a co-branded communication server for mid-sized enterprises.
Justin Moses, director of Server and Messaging Systems Information Technology at Barry University, located in Miami Shores, Florida, said that the company recently started running Sagemcom's XMediusFAX Fax over IP on Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
TMCnet recently had the chance to speak to Karol Waldron, business development manager of Sagemcom, at ITEXPO West 2011 that took place from September 13-15, in Austin, Texas.
Many organizations still rely heavily on fax communications as part of their daily business processes. Too often, amid newly deployed VoIP and unified communications infrastructures, organizations overlook implementing fax as part of their converged IP strategy.
With IP fax, organizations of all sizes can use e-mail-based desktop faxing and fax outsourcing.
DSP Group, a global provider of wireless chipset solutions for converged communications at home, and Sagemcom announced that Sagemcom's D46W handset powered by DSP Group chipset has received CAT-iq 2.0 certification from the DECT Forum.
IP fax company Sagemcom has been quite busy lately, tackling the social media space with its new Facebook page, and, of course, augmenting its expansive IP fax portfolio. Now, the leader in communication terminals and digital set-top boxes has joined with France Telecom group company Viaccess to bring to the European market an innovative, 3D satellite recorder with Blu-ray player.
IP fax provider Sagemcom was recently on the floor at Cisco Live 2011 in Las Vegas, where company executives had the opportunity to sit down and talk to John Voss, Solution Product Manager for the Cisco UCS Express and Application eXtension Platform.

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