SMBs Starting to Buy Fax Over IP (FoIP)

With the continued growth of Voice over Internet Protocol, companies are increasingly adopting fax-over-IP innovation, if you prefer, as businesses migrate more and more over to VoIP. At first, VoIP was adopted by larger organizations or the traditional "first adopters" at that time moved to the small-medium-sized business segment. Many industry experts are reporting that they’re seeing a greater adoption of fax-over-IP in the SMB market.

Primary driver for organizations to send voice

VoIP combined with converged IP has as well become a primary driver for organizations to send voice, documents and data. SMBs have not become a part of the mix in a big way. For full converged IP, Fax-over-IP is as well a required component. This is another reason that resellers find FoIP business among SMBs is strong and continues to grow.

A key factor driving the popularity of Fax over IP among SMBs is cost. A single IP network is less expensive for smaller firms to maintain a mix of IP solutions than traditional technologies to handle their data and voice. What’s more, a single network makes it easier to integrate applications businesses need every day, just as fax, voice and data. Really, clients are looking for solutions that offer mixed mode messaging and let users send documents via fax, e-mail or receive fax or voice messages as email attachments. An IP platform as well allows SMBs to use all or part of their existing infrastructure or migrate some of their needs to hosted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), FoIP and other SaaS providers.