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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 08 Oct 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 272 : "text" format

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FAX Adapters: How does a VoIP FAX Analog Telephone Adapter work?
Centurylink protest rejected
Re: Are you using an online fax service?

Message-ID: <20211007124219.ADF9C720@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:42:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FAX Adapters: How does a VoIP FAX Analog Telephone Adapter work? The VoIP ATA for FAX is a powerful, cost-effective solution for customers who need to securely send and receive faxes using a traditional, analog fax machine - often needed for legal and privacy compliance such as HIPPA or FERPA. The term "fax" is shorthand for the more technical word, facsimile, for the document transmission technology. The advent of ALL-IP fax solutions today, can reduce costs and streamline business communications. Many businesses have been able to replace their old-fashioned fax machines with paperless, all-electronic fax operations. However, lots of organizations must meet certain industry compliance stipulations, legal requirements, and other regulations that still demand the use of traditional paper fax machines. For such enterprises, although they need to keep the fax machine, they may not be able to use traditional analog phone line anymore. That's where the VoIP adapter comes to the rescue. https://www.patton.com/fax-adapter/
Message-ID: <20211007123009.8CB7F720@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:30:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Centurylink protest rejected Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS (CenturyLink) protests the issuance of a task order to Granite Telecommunications, LLC under an unnumbered solicitation issued by AgFirst-Farm Credit Bank. The solicitation seeks network/data services and software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services and contemplates issuance of a task order under the General Services Administration's (GSA) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. CenturyLink contends that AgFirst unreasonably evaluated proposals under the technical and price factors, impermissibly permitted individual credit unions to influence the award decision, conducted inadequate and unequal discussions, and failed to evaluate proposals for compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act. https://www.gao.gov/products/b-420095
Message-ID: <sjkbnf$r5r$1@reader1.panix.com> Date: 6 Oct 2021 14:26:55 -0000 From: "Brian Gordon" <briang.remove-this@and-this-too.panix.com> Subject: Re: Are you using an online fax service? In article <d5bc04f5-b012-1bd7-d8a6-c10b5440aad2@billhorne.com>, Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org> wrote: >I think there are services which will carry a message from either email >or a web page to a FAX machine which is connected to the PSTN, vice versa. > >If you have used such a service, please post your remarks about it: the >service you used, what it cost, how well (or poorly) it worked, the >costs, and anything else a neophyte would need to know. > [...] I use Ring Central (ringcentral.com) for about $167/yr. They give me a unique 800 number for receiving faxes, which they then e-mail to me. To send a FAX, I e-mail it as an attachment to an address based on the FAX number. Very, very few problems over the years. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + | Brian Gordon brian dot gordon at cox dot net | bgordon@aol.com Bass: NSC Frank Thorne + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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