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How is progress on an fax service for VFX? As we'll all be able to get naked from late September (naked DSL of course!), I'd say having a decent fax service will become a much bigger priority. Although fax will run quite well over VFX at the moment, there is still a bit of work to be done to make it more workable and reliable.
I'd see two options here:
1. A fax to email only service. This would suite the occasional fax user, and would be a suitable replacement for someone who uses Faxibilty. This service would have a "virtual" number, that terminates at WxC, receiving the incoming fax, then sending it off to an email address. To send a fax, you'd send it out on your normal VXF voice line.
2. A fully feature fax service. This would be a dedicated VFX line terminating at your VFX ATA and plugging into your fax machine. This service would also include fax mailbox etc. Also, with IP fax machines now available, a service that could connected directly to those devices would also be great.
Having a good reliable fax service come post September is going to must for migrating some of my clients to N-DSL and VFX. I hope WxC will be able to deliver.
Keep up the good work!
WorldxChange
, but the main point that comes out of this is that due to the nature of Fax, "the Internet is the natural enemy of the Fax Machine" mainly due to characteristics of the internet, Net connections have latency and jitter and lost packets any one of these can mess with IP faxing this won't change. IP faxing is not as reliable as traditional POTs lines I wish it was, however in saying that our current network structure works pretty well for national faxing as it stands, we are also doing a lot of work on it and are always looking to improve the service, 
