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Softech Communications pc-FaxNetwork
Softech Communications offers pc-FaxNetwork, a network version of its pc-Fax system. The system comes in a variety of configurations, from a starter pack containing one pc-FaxNetwork card for up to five network users to a five-card pack for up to 17 high-volume users. Additional users can be added using LAN/Plus upgrade packs, which are available in one-, three-, and five-user configurations.
You can configure all packs to serve any combination of two types of user: those able to send just faxes and those able to send faxes and binary files.
For fax and file transfer communication for multiple users, you install a fax card into a selected network computer to act as a fax server. In this mode, the fax server can support up to five or more PCs on the network.
The fax server automatically queues faxes for transmission and interrogates every 10 seconds for faxes.
In the second mode, you install a fax board in an individual user’s PC to provide a data transfer rate of 9600 bps for computer files (Direct Delivery File Transfer, or DDFT) over the public telephone network to similarly equipped PCs or networks, as well as direct desk-to-desk fax communication.
The system allows DDFT users to produce color as well as black-and-white text and graphics documents on their PCs and then either route them through the departmental fax server to network users or transmit them directly to other pc-Fax-equipped computers.
The system offers transmission and reception of text or graphics, text and graphics merge, conversion utilities, queuing, auto-dialing, and programmed broadcast to multiple locations.
The pc-FaxNetwork system uses CCITT stand ard protocols as the basis for fax transmission and reception, and it uses the same protocols and error-correction standards to send and receive files. The system requires an IBM XT as the fax server, DOS 3.0, and a Novell network running under NetBIOS.