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Best Network Fax Server

RightFAX Is The Right Fax Software Choice

Software-based fax servers offer a number of advantages over the plug-and-play, hardware-and-software solutions. Software-based fax servers are trickier to install, but we feel the benefits outweigh the installation headaches.
Software-based fax has benefits such as the ability to have several multiple-line fax boards in a single server; the ability to use industrial-strength fax boards for superior call completion; support for several network operating systems; a number of front-end clients to support different operating system environments; accounting for facsimile use by cost center or client code; and more choices in e-mail integration. Choices for routing inbound fax traffic are plentiful.
And the software-based fax solution that makes more of these options available than any other is RightFAX 3.5. Much like Castelle's plug-and-play fax server, the breadth and depth of features this function-rich product supports simply surpasses everything else.
RightFAX has a large number of different routing options and several ways to connect to the server from a variety of desktop environments. It includes an optional gateway connection into all three of the major e-mail messaging systems--VIM, MAPI and MHS--which is something that none of the other products we've tested could do, with or without optional software.
As an OS/2-based product, RightFAX is at home on LAN Server and LAN Manager networks. Connecting a RightFAX server into a NetWare environment is a bit trickier, but the product is bulletproof once installed. Ri ghtFAX is a true 32-bit application that makes good use of its host's multitasking capabilities.
Our runners-up, Optus and Alcom, aren't slouches when it comes to enterprise fax duty. Each product comes with an industrial-strength fax server and almost as many bells and whistles as RightFAX. If you're running in a NetWare environment and have chosen not to use OS/2 as a client OS, either one of these products are excellent choices.

RightFAX 3.5, $995, RightFAX, 4400 E. Broadway, Suite 312, Tucson, AZ 85711. (602) 327-1357; fax (602) 321-7456.

Runners-Up
LanFax Office, Alcom Corp.,
1616 N. Shoreline Blvd.,
Mountain View, CA 94043.
(415) 694-7000; fax (415) 694-7070.

FACSys v3.4, Optus Software, 100 Davidson Ave., Somerset, NJ 08873. (908) 271-9568; fax (908) 271-9572.