ProtoFax is a full featured Internet gateway, designed to deliver faxes and alphanumeric pages from the Internet. Protofax can accomplish this using email, the web, and directly from Windows™applications, allowing ISP's and private networks to expand their existing list of services.

New Features!

• Support for Brooktrout PCI TruFax cards
• Multiple fax ports are launched lowest port to highest port number, rather then highest to lowest
• Fix for SMTP port sticking open
• Fix for PDF attachment rendering
• Support for multiple ProtoFax recipients in the To line for e-mails
• Fix for multiple fax ports launching
• Fix for modem initialization problems
• Minor interface fixes
• Other minor fixes and enhancements

ProtoFax performs the following functions:

Email to Fax
ProtoFax's email to fax capabilities are wide ranging. Protofax can retrieve mail from existing email accounts and fax it to any fax number in the world. However, your users are not required to have an email accounts; you can create email accounts directly on the ProtoFax server. ProtoFax will allow users to include a fax number in the address of their emails. The emails will then be faxed to that number.

Fax from Desktop Applications
ProtoFax has a free printer driver that you can install on client workstations. This printer driver will allow your users to send any Windows™ document over the Internet to a ProtoFax server. The document can be faxed to any number specified. This is just one example of how using the Internet and ProtoFax can provide extraordinary savings in long distance fees.

Web Faxing
ProtoFax will allow you to offer web based faxing to your clients. Especially suited for commerce and ordering solutions, ProtoFax can deliver web based forms and documents to business that traditionally accept fax orders.

Email to Pager
ProtoFax can send email via POP or SMTP to an alphanumeric pager. Multiple pages can be sent in a single call if the message is too long. ProtoFax can either send an entire message or just notify the sender that they have email.

Web Paging
ProtoFax permits you to send alphanumeric pages from web pages. For businesses with clients on the go, this is the perfect solution.

Fax Engine

The key features of the ProtoFax Fax Engine are:

1. Low System Load
2. Fast Performance
3. Designed specifically for US Robotics, Hayes, Practical Peripheral and other popular modems

The ProtoFax Fax Engine's low system load enables it to share the same computer as web servers or file servers or other existing machines. On a Pentium™ 100 with Windows NT and 32megs of RAM, the ProtoFax server can take a message that it received, compile the fax and dial the recipient fax in about 20 seconds! Another key feature of ProtoFax is that it utilizes standard fax modems for sending its faxes. Specifically designed for the most popular modems, you most likely already have all the necessary hardware to run ProtoFax and start.

Alphanumeric Pager Engine

ProtoFax's Alphanumeric Pager Engine will deliver messages obtained from the POP, SMTP, and Scanner Directory Services to alphanumeric pagers via the TAP protocol.

Hardware Requirements

Here are the minimum recommended hardware requirements for ProtoFax:

ProtoFax is designed to work with a TCP/IP network. While the ProtoFax server must run on a Windows� NT, 95 or 98 system, it can be placed on a network with Windows�, UNIX, IntraNetware�, AIX�, or any other server that communicates via TCP/IP. ProtoFax was built on standard Internet protocols so it is compliant with TCP/IP networks.

On your network, install ProtoFax on any Windows� NT, 95 or 98 machine. The machine must have the following:

• Pentium� 100MHZ or higher processor
• 16 megs RAM or more
• 5 megs or more of free hard disk space for program files
• Class 1 fax modem

Networking Notes:

ProtoFax is specifically designed to be used on an intranet or on the Internet. To use ProtoFax with the Internet, the ProtoFax server will need a connection to the Internet. Types of Internet connections include:

• An ethernet connection (via a network card)
• ISDN adapter
• Dial-up modem

If you access the Internet with a dial-up modem, you still must have an additional fax modem for ProtoFax to deliver faxes, numeric and alphanumeric pages.