Automated FAX Delivery

[Luis Delgado]

I was wondering how implement an automatic system for fax delivery.
What I wanted is the following:

- to have in my personal business card a unique personal fax number,
like any other person in the same company. Everyone could have a
unique fax number.

For example:

FAX # 3100234 - to me
Fax # 3100235 - to you
FAX # 3100236 - to him, etc.

- All fax calls would be received by the local company PABX, that
would redirect all calls to the same FAX card installed in a PC, for
example. Then the FAX Software on the PC would decide based on the
last three digits of the # specified by the sender, to which person to
send the fax in an electronic mail message format.

I'm not saying this should be the best way to implement, and I even
don't know if there are automated systems like this. I know however
that it its possible (correct me if I'm wrong) to specify, something
like a destination in the fax message it self, but I don't what this
solution, because it is'nt completely transparent to the sender.

Does anybody know any way to do this? Is there any hard/soft solution
to implement this?

While waiting for your sugestions, my best regards,

Luis Delgado INESC-CCAE Lisbon, Portugal.
l...@inesc.pt cis: 100024,3520

[Steve Elias]

Luis, what you have described is a combination of DID lines with DID
capable fax modem cards. A number of vendors sell equipment which can
do this. Brooktrout and Gammalink/Dialogic (what is their new name?)
are two such vendors. Also there are external DID-Rs232 boxes which
will work with any fax modem, but I'm not sure who makes those.

It is the ideal solution for computerfax delivery because it is
transparent to the sender, as you point out.

eli l...@cayman.inesc.pt (Luis Delgado) writes: