Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Elias) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Fax machines and a Sun Network Message-ID: <703@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 3 Aug 89 02:19:50 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 48 Keywords: Hardware Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 91, message 1 of 16 In article <1037@jtsv16.UUCP> gil@jtsv16.UUCP (gil) writes: ! !We are currently examining the feasibility of integrating a fax !machine onto a Sun network. !Does anybody know of any products that we should be examining? the Brooktrout Fax-Mail 96 board runs in a 386i. external fax modems (via serial port) should work with the sun as well, though software might be limited.. (JT-Fax) !Some of the considerations we are concerned about are: ! ! i) facsimilie administration - when ! faxes are "incoming", there should be an ! administration facility for coalescing ! transmission pages and re-routing them ! to the appropriate user. i know of no fax board or software which provides this feature. linking email and fax is a simple task, given the proper hardware. i would do it myself if i had a real computer at home! ! ii) archiving - the fax images should be ! stored in their compressed form (either ! G3 or G4) so as to save disk space. naturally! ! iii) integration of incoming and ! outgoing faxes - some sort of spooling ! facility so that bi-directional ! facsimilie usage can be maintained. all the PC fax boards provide these features. i think your only turnkey option is to put one of the PC fax boards into a 386i. though not all PC-fax products are qualified on a 386i... ! Thanks in advance, ! ! G. Hauer you're quite welcome... -- ...... Steve Elias (eli@spdcc.com);(6178591389);(6178906844) {} /* hi */