That fax in intellectual property?

Please fax a copy of a document that is visually identical to the original.

Traditional fax machines scan a document to convert it to a digital format and send the document to a recipient computer.

IP and traditional fax

Traditional fax machines transfer the digital version of the document on traditional phone lines.

Fax over IP converts the data into packets IP (Internet Protocol) and passes via the Internet.

Dedicated machines

Dedicated IP-based fax machines look much like a traditional fax.

The difference is that IP-based fax machines to connect to the Internet and traditional fax machines connect to a phone line.

Integrated units

There are a variety of devices, the features of scanner, integrated printer and fax.

Some of these devices to connect to a computer for Internet connectivity. Other units of such that are connected directly to a network.

Software systems

A number of fax over IP software machines are available.

Documents can either be printed word processing standard, leaves calculation or other software. The printer driver converts an image of the document to fax format and then encapsulates data into IP packets for transmission over the Internet. A scanner is required for documents by hand written.

Benefits of the IP fax

Fax over IP offers a number of advantages over traditional fax.

No telephone lines are used, so there are no charges for long distance calls. Because you the internal using a separate phone line is not required.