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Authors: Bernard REVILLET, Gérard BOULAY, Jean-Paul DICK, Jérôme CUDELOU

Publication date: May 10, 2001 | Lire en français

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    3. IP network services

    The Internet is a data transmission network that supports both document and message communications in delayed time, as well as real-time communications such as voice. It is ideally suited to the transmission and broadcasting of faxes, in both real-time and non-real-time modes.

    Widespread Internet Protocol (IP) networks and a well-defined fax data format are two key factors in the rapid development of fax over IP (Box 3).

    Box 3: fax and unified messaging

    The concept of "unified messaging" refers to the possibility of grouping all messages (faxes, text and voice messages) in a single location: the electronic mailbox.

    As far as faxing is concerned, far from overshadowing the basic service, unified messaging reinforces it by providing two additional services: confidentiality...

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