Just about every office in the world has a fax machine, but remarkably, surprisingly few of them take advantage of the latest fax technology. The last time I worked in an office (some 18 years ago), sending a fax was always a great excuse to get away from my desk, and take more than a couple of  detours on my way to the fax machine. On more than one occasion, that detour took me out the front door and over to the pub next door.

Fax over IP (FoIP) technology is really quite simple, it’s surprising that so few companies use it. Maybe it’s just for that reason–it takes away one of our most cherished excuses to goof off.

Seriously, today it’s remarkably easy to implement, especially given that most companies are connected to the Internet and may even have an internal IP network as well. FoIP just eliminates the old-fashioned standalone fax machines, and instead sends faxes straight from the desktop over the Internet. No need to go to the fax room down the hall! If you have a hosted VoIP service, chances are, this functionality is incorporated in your package; if you run your own internal IP PBX, it’s still easy to integrate the service internally.

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