Re: AS/400 based fax solution

Rob,

        At Lotusphere IBM talked about the December announce of an eight
port PCI Fax card for the AS/400 as a replacement for the old cards, I hink
they are using Brooktrouts but do not remember for sure!  As DFS/400 is
supposed to be available in Feburary if I mismember correctly, however you
will still need the Not Trustworthy product to handle the rendering process
even for DFS/400.

        I can cross check some notes Thursday if you would like...


Jeffrey M. Silberberg
CompuDesigns, Inc.
(770) 399-9464

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com>
To: DOMINO400@midrange.com <DOMINO400@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:54 PM
Subject: AS/400 based fax solution


>We are still running the Fax for Domino product.  Alas, this
>requires an NT server.  Probably due to the special cards going
>into it.  We use Brooktrout.  This gives us dialout via built
>in modems on the cards.  What these cards also give is is Direct
>Inward Dialing, or DID, capability.  Therefore we have a bank of
>40 phone numbers feeding in on two lines into the cards.  You
>dial my fax number, it goes onto one of the two lines, into one
>of the cards in the PC.  From there it appears as a TIF attachment
>on a Notes email sent directly to me.  This is all well and good.
>However the NT, (remember Nice Try?), locks up repeatedly.  The
>CEO is pushing to move from a PC based solution to an AS/400
>based solution, (ain't this a great place to work!).  However I
>am not sure if the 400 has the right mix of software/hardware to
>support this.  For one thing I can't purchase a Fax for Domino
>product that is 400 based.
>
>IBM suggests integrating FAX/400 with Domino.  They talk about
>this in a redbook available at
>http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg245181.pdf
>
>My biggest concern with this is a belief on my part that this
>would require either:
>1)  TSI routing.  This would route based on the little phone
>number or description that prints at the top of the fax.  I don't
>like this because normally it is the senders phone number and we
>have the same sender sending to multiple destinations within our
>company.
>2)  Tone routing.  Is this a matter of punching tone buttons after
>the fax modem starts squealing?  This sounds like manual faxing to
>me.  This would be unacceptable for the majority of people who fax
>to us.
>
>What do others think?
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