Sagem-Interstar's XMediusFAX SP Edition FoIP software for VoIP networks enables PingTone to enhance IP fax services.
Montreal, Canada, October 19, 2005
For PingTone Communications, one of the largest business VoIP service providers in the U.S., choosing a new outbound IP fax platform was made easier with the help of Sagem-Interstar’ XMediusFAX SP multi-tenant T.38 Fax over IP (FoIP) solution. Sagem-Interstar (www.faxserver.com), a leading developer of IP telephony technologies, provides the new technology behind PingTone’s enhanced capacity for extending carrier-class IP fax service to its business customers.
PingTone, which offers advanced VoIP telephone services to business customers, had identified outbound IP fax services as an area of high customer demand and additional growth. Unsatisfied with the performance of previous IP fax technologies, PingTone searched for a state-of-the-art IP fax product that is both reliable and scalable. PingTone selected Sagem-Interstar’s XMediusFAX SP multi-tenant T.38 FoIP solution due to its high scalability and carrier-class fault tolerance, designed specifically for service providers. Attractive features included:
- Flexibility in supporting up to 240 channels per server
- Seamless integration with Cisco VoIP backbones without requiring fax boards
- Built-in clustering, fault detection, failover support and automatic data replication, which consistently ensure high availability
"We are very pleased with our choice of Sagem-Interstar. XMediusFAX SP adds important new outbound capabilities for PingTone customers,” stated Richard Schulte, Executive Vice President of PingTone. “Although we have been offering inbound and outbound IP fax service for many years, we've never been completely satisfied with the technology until now. Also important to us was vendor support during network installation and Sagem-Interstar's engineering team was excellent. "
“Sagem-Interstar’s boardless XMediusFAX SP fax server solution is scalable to 240 channels per server, providing a significant advantage over other fax server solutions on the market, which are physically limited to 96 channels per server due to their reliance on fax boards,” said Martin Demers, President and CEO of Sagem-Interstar Inc.
About the XMediusFAX® SP Fax Server
Sagem-Interstar, worldwide IP fax leader, is the pioneer in carrier-class, T.38 Fax over IP (FoIP) software for VoIP networks. Service providers and large enterprises deploy Sagem-Interstar’s XMediusFAX SP multi-tenant and boardless fax server software to partition their networks into hundreds of fax servers, each with their settings, queues, and administrators. The solution is ideal for carriers or large enterprises requiring support for multiple T1s on a single server. XMediusFAX SP enables secure and time-saving email-based faxing that reduces costs, eliminates the expense of fax boards, improves business workflow, and creates an audit trail for regulatory compliance.
Featured at Internet Telephony’s Miami 2005 conference as Rich Tehrani’s “IP Telephony Killer App”, XMediusFAX SP also won “Best of Show 2005.”
About Sagem-Interstar
Privately held Sagem-Interstar pioneered the fax server revolution in 1996 with its LightningFAX® server software. It then reinvented the fax server in 2002 with XMediusFAX® server, the industry’s first boardless, T.38 IP fax server solution for enterprises and service providers. With thousands of systems installed in more than 40 countries, Sagem-Interstar is committed to providing world-class, electronic messaging technology to carriers, service providers and enterprise markets of all sizes.
Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Sagem-Interstar maintains partnerships with Cisco Systems, Groupe SAGEM, Bell Canada, 3Com, Microsoft, Pitney Bowes, IBM, HP, Lotus, and SAP. Its award-winning solutions are distributed worldwide through a global network of business partners, system integrators and OEM partners. For more information, visit the Sagem-Interstar website at www.faxserver.com.
About PingTone
PingTone Communications provides advanced IP telephone services to business customers and government agencies based on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies. PingTone allows organizations to add portability and remote worker integration to their business communications together with new applications such as unified messaging, connecting branch offices over data networks and advanced call routing. For more information, please visit www.pingtone.com.
Media Contacts:
Gisèle Seto
Sagem-Interstar
Phone: 514-787-2114
gisele.seto@sagem-interstar.com
Robert Marin
PingTone Communications
Phone: (703) 621-6575
rmarin@pingtone.com
