Modems have been in use by the private sector since the early 1960s. All modems use phone lines to transmit information, but not every modem is the same. As the name implies, a "fax modem" is intended ...

There are two other standards that the latest commercial modems require: V.42bis for data compression and V.42 for error correction. A typical commercial modem ...

A combination fax board and data modem available as an external unit that plugs into the serial port of the computer or as an expansion card for internal installation. It includes a switch that routes ...

If you have multiple computers connected to a network and only one fax modem and want to use it from all computers, you must share the fax modem on the network. To share a fax modem, you need to have ...

Not long ago, fax modems were exotic, expensive, cutting-edge technology. Today they’re standard equipment on many home and small business PC packages. In fact, it’s hard to find a modem today that ...

Fax modems and fax boards are valuable tools for certain specialized applications on personal computers. These tools are widely misunderstood, though, and under no circumstances should they be ...

Silicon Laboratories claims that its Si2417 and Si2435 fax ISOmodem embedded modems are the industry's most integrated, smallest footprint fax modems. The devices offer an easy-to-use, ...

When the public switched telephone network (PSTN) was initially constructed, voice communication was the primary goal. However, as data communications such as fax, modem, and text became more ...

At work they needed to pull in about 4 fax machines to get faxes in from a bunch of reps out in the field. I'm not sure how long term this is but they wanted to avoid if possible the hassle of having ...

Soft Solutions has introduced a public beta version of 4-Sight FAX Version 7, its network fax server software for Mac OS X. New to this release is Universal binary support for Intel and PowerPC-based ...

A handful of small Silicon Valley computer and peripherals companies are introducing plug-in products called fax boards that can turn a personal computer into a facsimile machine. Facsimile, or ”fax,” ...