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What is Noojee Fax (a.k.a AsterFax)?
The Only Open Source Email to Fax Gateway for Asterisk.
AsterFax Version 2.0 is coming and with it a new name. From the 21st of May 2008 AsterFax will be known as 'Noojee Fax'.
The name change is timed to conicide with a change of company name. From the 21st of May 2008 Asterisk IT will be know as 'Noojee Telephony Solutions'.
After a long hiatus Noojee Fax 2.0 is finally coming. Largely due to the disappointing results obtained when using SpanDSP, Asterisk IT had put Noojee Fax on the back burner. Now with the release of a reliable commercial fax driver, which works with all Digium hardware, Asterisk IT is about to release Noojee Fax version 2.0.
Due to the commercial nature of the fax driver, it will only be available with the Commercial version of Noojee Fax. The Open Source version will still be available with SpanDSP and compatible DSP hardware.
Noojee Fax 2.0 will be release to correspond with CeBit Australia on May 21st 2008.
Asterisk is an Open Source PABX integrating PSTN telephone lines and VOIP into a single solution, providing all of the functionality of a high end PBX. Noojee Fax builds on the services delivered by Asterisk and provides an email based Fax Gateway that will advance any company’s communication capabilities.
With Noojee Fax and Asterisk, you can send and receive faxes using your standard email client without having to install any software on your desktop. Noojee Fax simply translates a normal email message into a fax message for sending faxes and back the other way when receiving faxes. To send a fax you simply enter the destination phone number in the 'To' address, compose your email message and click the ‘Send’ button. It’s that easy.
Features & Benefits:
Faxing is an essential form of business communication for every company. By combining Noojee Fax and Asterisk sending and receiving faxes is easy.
Features:
- Use your existing email client to send and receive faxes
- Send MS-Word documents as a fax and a large variety of other file types
- Provide a private fax line for every staff member and have faxes delivered directly to their email inbox
- Send a fax to multiple recipients just be adding additional 'To' addresses.
- Automatic delivery receipts delivered to your email inbox
- Received faxes can be delivered as either a tiff or pdf attachment or an inline tiff.
- Archives inbound and outbound faxes in a central location
- Simple to install
- Built as an extension to Asterisk
- Support all Asterisk compatible hardware (including Digium)
- Also able to work with most Fax modems directly under Linux without needing Asterisk
- Send multiple attachments in one single fax transmission.
- Email body can be used as a coversheet to attachments.
- Supports a large number of file formats including: Tiff, Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer and others.
- Can be integrated into other business applications via SMTP or SOAP interface.
- Preview faxes before they are sent.
Benefits:
- No additional hardware require has it utilizes the telephony card already in your Asterisk PABX
- Create private fax numbers for all staff without needing additional lines, and route faxes directly to a staff members emails inbox.
- Combined with AsterFax, Asterisk creates a universal inbox with email, voice and fax messages all being delivered to a users existing email client.
- Reduced deployment costs as no client install required
- Reduced deployment costs as no specialized hardware required.
- Reduced life cycle costs as updates only need to be applied to the server.
- Eliminate the costs associated with having a dedicated fax line
- Corporate monitoring of all fax transmissions via a central archive Archive
- Staff can send and receive faxes from home just by connecting to the corporate mail server
Limitations:
At this stage faxing over VoIP channels (such as SIP and IAX) is not supported. We have had reports that this can be made to work but our testing shows that it is at best challenging to make this reliable. Support for T.38 (fax over IP) is available under Call Weaver and we are working with developers to introduced T.38 support under Asterisk
Licensing:
Noojee Fax is available under a dual license model. We offer Noojee Fax completely free under a modified version of the GPL to users (commercial or otherwise) with a single fax line and up to 5 direct-in-dials. For users with a greater need you can purchase a commercial license for a reasonable price (see below).
The commercial fax driver is only available with the commercial version of Noojee Fax.
Download:
You can download the free version from the Noojee Fax download page.
Purchase:
For organisations with additional fax lines, you must purchase a commercial license. (See Purchase Page). Note: Noojee Fax pricing is per fax line, not per user. You can add as many users as you need.
Noojee Fax is Sponsored by Asterisk I.T.
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