Fax modem
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2008)
A V.92 Fax Modem Card
A fax modem enables a computer to transmit and receive documents as faxes. A fax modem is like a data modem but is designed to transmit and receive documents to and from a fax machine or another fax modem. Some, but not all, fax modems do double duty as data modems. As with other modems, fax modems can be internal or external. Internal fax modems are often called fax boards.
History
In the early 90’s small business PCs commonly had a PC-based fax/modem card and fax software (typically WinFax Pro). Now largely replaced by E-mail, PC-based faxing with a fax/modem is more-and-more a rarity. Where faxing from a PC is required there are a number of Internet-based faxing alternatives. So, while it’s still common to see businesses with a one or more traditional fax machines churning out pages, they are often surrounded by a forest of PCs processing even more E-mail.
PC Faxing
Computer users may set up a PC fax/modem with card, telephone line access and software, or use a service similar to printing from a PC or sending an E-mail message.
Fax integration is available in unified communications (e.g. E-mail, Voice Mail and Fax managed together), in a number of Hosted PBX products where standard features allow users to send a fax by using the fax phone number as the address of a E-mail message, and receive incoming faxes via E-mail with the Fax content presented as a PDF attachment.
The use of fax/modem cards after the 1990s became a last resort, as compared to a high speed Internet connection. Few users saw a reason for the effort of making this old-technology approach work.
See Also
Fax
Modem
Categories: Modems | FaxHidden categories: Articles lacking sources from August 2008 | All articles lacking sources
I am an expert from China Toys Suppliers, usually analyzes all kind of industries situation, such as flex atx case , micro btx case.
Processing your request, Please wait....
