Sagemcom and AudiCodes Advancing the IP Fax Market

Sagemcom, a global leader in boardless SIP/IP fax, continues to work closely with AudioCodes (News - Alert), Ltd., a manufacturer of advance Voice over IP (VoIP) and converged VoIP and data networking products and applications to service providers and enterprises. Sagemcom’s relationship with AudioCodes has become increasingly focused at a global channel level as opportunities continue to expand.

As fax server applications grow in demand, AudioCodes brings Media Gateway (News - Alert) and Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC) devices to interconnect the fax server application software to and enterprises public networks, IP-PBX, PBX, and SIP Trunks. “In the past, software applications had been using legacy PCI (News - Alert) form factor boards for the conversion between the TDM world and the software application,” said Percy. “Those boards required specialized servers that had the appropriate sized slots in them, and because they needed those PCI slots it limited the physical configuration or installation that you could use to deploy a fax as an application.” Migrating to new architecture with T.38 interfacing over to gateway dramatically improves flexibility and efficiency of deployment.

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In the podcast, Nikolopoulos commented, “From an overall trend perspective what we are seeing is SIP trunking, UC optimized solutions survivability, virtualization, and seamless VoIP interoperability fundamentally based on T.38 standard.” T.38 to the average IT manager is a protocol used in conjuction with SIP to transfer fax image information and often used as opposed to G711 packetization. T.38 has become the dominant standard mechanism for fax applications.

Nikolopoulos continued, “Fax can be seen as an intersection point with respect to multiple eco-systems. Fax plays into enterprise content management space, unified communications space, the enterprise resource planning space.” Because of the inherent complexities in these eco-systems there is tremendous opportunity for professional services to come in and streamline deployment, providing effective low-cost solutions