ABSTRACT
Financial organizations and their customers favor fax transmission as a much faster way to exchange key documents: credit applications, purchase orders, invoices, credit reports, transaction confirmations, sales quotes, and many other time-sensitive documents. Fax automation came into its own in the early 1990s. The first generation fax servers allowed a computer-generated document that ordinarily would be printed to be delivered instead as a fax. As the marketplace evolved, two strata of fax solutions emerged. The first is the familiar LAN-based solution designed to meet the needs of users generating documents from their word processors, spreadsheets, or other desktop applications. The second strata is the enterprise-wide fax server. The premise of Advanced Inbound Routing (AIR) is pretty straightforward on the surface: receive high volumes of fax transmissions and route them securely through the enterprise. AIR provides a secure environment with many options for processing faxes.
