fax board

fax board

An expansion card that contains a fax circuit and plugs into the bus of a desktop computer. Most fax boards are fax/modems. See fax/modem and fax gateway.
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According to the company, NET SatisFAXtion Port Server includes several benefits: scalability to a full DS3 (672 ports) in a single 1U rack-mount system, with an average throughput of approximately 40,000 faxes per hour; support for regulatory compliance requirements; easy navigation through local firewall and network address translation (NAT) devices; no dedicated and expensive T1/E1 digital fax board hardware required; support for Microsoft Fax Client; as well as scalable SQL storage.
At nearly 65% less the cost that traditional intelligent fax board manufacturers charge, the modems have become highly attractive to organizations of all sizes and faxing volumes.
Its requirements include 386-based or higher CPU, Windows 3.1 or higher, VGA monitor, DOS 3.0 or higher, Windows-compatible fax board, fax/modem software, flatbed or sheetfed scanner.
What's needed is an input workstation--a computer, scanner and a fax machine (or a fax board in the workstation).
Integrating the PC equipped with the fax board with the loan processing software program allows broadcasting loan status information.
For its PageFax telefacsimile system, the company made its own four-port fax board that includes a voice processor and other capabilities.
A document can be faxed from a regular fax machine to a computer that has a phone modem, a fax board, and fax software.
Since the software is actually more important than the hardware, arrange a demonstration of the fax board just to see how it functions.
Also known as a fax board, this handy devices special mention.
The new version provides support for the NMS AG 4000 fax board, which offers fax resources and network interfaces on a single PCI for up to 120 channels with four T1 or E1 trunks, and for the new Dialogic DM3 Fax series board, which can scale to 96 channels for a T1 configuration.
The leading fax board is Intel's Satis FAXtion modern/400, which lists for $549.