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Faxing over VoIP
Faxing over VoIP
Copyright © 2006 Chris Landry
As far as VoIP has come in Voice telephone calls,
faxing over VoIP still has a lot of room to improve.
Have you ever tried to fax on your residential VoIP
line? I have, and it didn't go well. After doing some
research on the subject I found out that the voice
traffic and the Fax traffic are best run over two
different codecs. This is why when most VoIP carriers
sell you a business account they include a free
additional fax line with the faxing specific codec
to allow for faxing.
Faxing on a Voice VoIP line is possible but not
recommended. You can fax a page or two over your
Voice VoIP line but it may take you several attempts
to accomplish. The reason is when the fax tone is
digitized into packets, there is packet loss. Packet
loss on a voice is not that critical because even
with a little packet loss, you can still hear and
understand what the person is saying. But, when
there is packet loss on a fax, any little bit can
really mess up the fax. The result can be a bad fax,
error message, or even a dropped call. When faxing
over a Fax Codec, the loss of packets is minimized
and faxes generally make it to its destination, but
in the case of a large fax (10+ pages) your chances
of a successful fax diminish. It is recommended that
a customer who is planning on faxing quite a bit get
a fax machine that also doubles as a scanner and can
convert potential faxes into a .PDF file so if the
fax over VoIP does not work, the customer can email
the fax.
Programmers are coming up with a better codec all
the time, so it is only a matter of time before VoIP
providers come up with a more reliable faxing VoIP
codec. VoIP is here to stay and the VoIP providers
are trying to overcome all of the objections from
small businesses to gain their business, and faxing
is a large issue for small businesses. I have the
utmost confidence in VoIP providers to come up with
a solution that is viable by the end of 2005 or earlier.
Faxing is only one of the things to consider before
choosing a VoIP solution. In fact, there are many
things to consider when choosing a VoIP provider.
An educated consumer generally results in a satisfied
consumer. You can compare VoIP providers side-by-side
at http://www.voipchoices.com/
Chris is the founder of http://www.VoIPChoices.com.
He has prequalified several high-quality VoIP providers and compares
them by price and features at http://www.VoIPChoices.com.
Chris can be reach via email at Chris@VoIPChoices.com
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