NetXchange Communications, a leading provider of Internet messaging
solutions and protocols, has introduced the newest
component of its Internet Xchange for Fax Internet/Intranet messaging
solution. NetXchange's Web Client enables users of all
computing platforms to benefit from Internet Xchange for Fax's innovative
Least Cost Routing functionality and intuitive
interface. The new dynamic Java-based Web Client allows Internet-connected
users, either at the home office or on the road,
to send and receive faxes regardless of hardware platform or operating
system.
"Businesses today are spending more and more of their telephone budgets
on faxes, both intra- and extra-company," said Peter
Davidson, president of facsimile industry analyst firm Davidson Consulting.
"The Internet provides a new medium for
transmitting faxes for these corporations, potentially saving more
than half of what they used to spend on traditional analog fax.
NetXchange is capitalizing on the Internet for faxing right now. NetXchange's
Web Client builds on the existing functionality of
its Internet Xchange for Fax software and Internet messaging protocols
to bring the product's benefits to users of diverse
operating systems and platforms."
JAVA-BASED WEB CLIENT POURS ADDED FUNCTIONALITY INTO USERS' CUPS
The company's innovative Internet communications infrastructure is increased
by the new functionality of the Java-based Web
Client. The Web Client allows companies with heterogeneous hardware
platforms and operating systems to benefit from all of
the functionality of NetXchange's first products, Internet Xchange
for Fax. Available as a free upgrade to all existing Internet
Xchange for Fax users, the Web Client will be downloadable from the
company's World Wide Web site at www.ntxc.com.
New customers will receive the Web Client as part of their Internet
Xchange for Fax purchase.
Unlike competitive hypertext mark-up language (HTML)-based programs,
NetXchange's Java-based Web Client allows
dynamic browsing capabilities and increases the speed of sending, receiving
and viewing faxes to users of any computing
platform, including Macintosh, Windows, UNIX, NEC and others. Any user
who can access the Web, be they on the road or
at the home office, will benefit from NetXchange's Internet Xchange
for Fax technology through the Web Client. As Java
provides a true client/server environment, Web Client users will have
the security, multithreaded and multitasking functionality
needed for high-performance Internet faxing as well as an innovative
graphic interface.
"The new Web Client continues our tradition of bringing users full functionality
Internet communications at an extremely low
price," said Israel Drori, NetXchange's president. "Our Web Client
translates our success in the Windows environment with
Internet Xchange for Fax into a platform- and operating system-independent
realm."
The Web Client increases productivity both in the office and on the
road by enabling the user to send, receive and view faxes
from their Internet browser. The Web Client brings the benefits of
Internet Xchange for Fax, including true Least Cost Routing,
network redundancy and fail-safe reliability, to a platform-independent
environment. The product also delivers complete remote
management of network servers and message events as well as fax encryption
and server authentication for enhanced security.
A unique system of icons allows the user to track the status of their
fax from their server, over the Internet and to the recipient,
in real time.
INTERNET XCHANGE FOR FAX CASHES IN ON LOW COST OF INTERNET
NetXchange's recently introduced Internet Xchange for Fax takes full
advantage of the company's technology infrastructure to
streamline fax communications over the Internet, Intranets and the
telephone network. Internet Xchange for Fax is the first
application built around a breakthrough switching architecture which
encompasses NetXchange's Simple Fax Transport
Protocol (SFTP) and Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) as well as
central management based on the universal
management protocol SNMP. An innovative software solution not to be
confused with standard fax server software, Internet
Xchange for Fax drastically reduces or eliminates fax transmission
charges for corporations using their Intranets and enables
service providers (SPs) to offer cost-effective, value-added messaging
services to customers. The product reduces the cost of a
fax to that of a local telephone call.
For example, a business person on a trip in Japan needs to fax a 30-page
document back to the home office in San Francisco
but does not want to pay the $3.50 per page the hotel charges its guests
to send faxes. Instead of searching for a printer at the
hotel, paying to print the document, paying to fax the document, and
having it visible to the eyes of any hotel staff member
walking by, he or she can connect to the Internet via a call to the
local ISP, can access a NetXchange server over the Internet
via the Web Client, and can then fax the document, without the hassle
or cost of conventional analog fax.
REFERENCES:
www.televid.com/pressrelease.html
www.netxchange.co.il/press/release100796.bcm.html
www.pcweek.com//builder/0812/12netfax.html