NetCentric Corporation, the leader in carrier-class Internet fax systems, today announced innovative new wireless messaging capabilities for its FaxStorm Internet Fax System. The new capabilities provide wireless device users unprecedented access to their faxes and other documents, plus the ability to obtain a hardcopy of all leading document types and formats at any local fax machine using the wireless device to initiate forwarding. Also included is the ability to send a Web page to any fax machine for printing.
The FaxStorm Internet Fax System is the technology platform-of-choice for leading NSPs and ASPs such as Singapore Telecom, Tiscali and MessageClick. FaxStorm supports a complete set of IP fax service offerings for inbound and outbound faxing, both point-to-point and broadcast. FaxStorm's new wireless features are built on the Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) standard and supports leading WAP-enabled handsets and devices.
NetCentric's new wireless capabilities fall into three categories:
-- Wireless Web access. FaxStorm provides WAP-based subscriber access to FaxStorm accounts via Internet-capable phones in addition to fax machines, PCs, enterprise applications, LAN fax servers and email systems. Users can modify account information, view status of inbound and outbound faxes, initiate new faxes and forward and redirect faxes.
-- Wireless-initiated local fax printing of documents. This powerful new feature turns any fax machine into a local online printer. Any document type, not just fax-format documents, held in a user's email account or FaxStorm document repository can be forwarded to and printed at any fax machine. By entering a URL, the user can also send any Web page to a fax machine for printing. Documents and Web pages are automatically converted to fax format by the FaxStorm system and delivered to the designated fax machine. A wide range of document types is supported, including Microsoft Office.
-- Wireless email notification and forwarding of faxes. FaxStorm automatically sends email notification of incoming faxes to the user's wireless email account. Optionally, the fax document can be included as an email attachment. Through the Wireless Web interface or by simply using the wireless email interface, the subscriber can forward incoming faxes to any fax machine, fax inbox or email account. Based on SMTP and T.37 standards, this capability can be conducted from products such as Research in Motion's "Blackberry" device and other wireless PDAs.
"With this broad wireless support, NetCentric is fax-enabling the explosive growth of wireless messaging," said Ed Mallen, president and CEO of NetCentric. "Our FaxStorm customer networks can offer wireless faxing to any subscriber, regardless of which wireless service provider that subscriber has chosen. Now anyone within reach of a nearby fax machine can select documents from their email account, FaxStorm Document Store, or Web pages, and print them out locally. This capability opens new doors for business people working away from the office.
"The advantage for the FaxStorm subscriber is immense," said Don Root, NetCentric's senior director of marketing. "Now faxes can essentially follow the subscriber anywhere he or she may go in the world. Also, with network-based document conversion, we can go beyond the world of fax. Now all you need is a wireless phone or PDA and a nearby fax machine to get hardcopy of just about any document, anytime. FaxStorm automatically converts the document and delivers it to the fax machine via the Internet and the telephone network."
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