Open Text has announced a range of purpose-built fax gateways, optimised to work with the Open Text Fax Server.

“We’re seeing more and more interest in fax over IP in organisations of all sizes because it gives them a promising way to lower costs and consolidate resources,” said Matthew Brine, Vice President, Fax and Document Distribution, Open Text.

“The combination of our fax gateways and market-leading fax server software makes it easier than ever to deploy a highly sophisticated FOIP solution that can deliver considerable savings and improve business processes.”

Communications networks in many organisations are often intermixed with circuit-switched (telephony) and packet-switched (IP) technologies. Open Text Fax Gateway serves as the bridge between these two divergent technologies.

Each gateway is preconfigured for integration with Open Text Fax Server, saving setup time. In larger deployments, automatic failover can sense when a gateway is unavailable and divert faxes to one or more alternative gateways, increasing availability, enhancing disaster recovery and lowering support costs.

Open Text Fax Gateway is offered in a selection of port densities (number of lines) and configurations ranging from analogue 4-port models to advanced configurations with over 100 ports.