Features

There are a number of reasons to use SETU FAX services. With SETU FAX, faxes can be sent anywhere in the world for a fraction of the cost of the cost of conventional faxing 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Virtual Real-time Delivery: Upon receipt of the original message, SetuFax immediately attempts to deliver it to the destination fax machine. Unlike other store and forward services, SetuFax never delays or defers the fax delivery.

Accountability: SetuFax takes full responsibility for fax document distribution from origin to destination. Though emailed notices customer have the security of knowing the current status of their document transmission at all times. Because the fax is never passed off to a third party for distribution, SetuFax and the customer maintain control of it throughout the SetuFax Global Network.

Cost Control: SetuFax Global Network's enhanced delivery capability allows customers to bypass expensive long-distance carriers and take advantages of the enormous savings associates with Internet based faxing. With SetuFax's guaranteed fixed-cost,low per-page rates, the savings potential for overseas operations and international companies is significant. Because fax costs do not vary and user are not penalized for slow destination fax machine, poor phone connections or the cost of transmitting graphics, SetuFax' per-page pricing can translate into additional savings.

Unlike faxing via a traditional long distance carrier, SetuFax only charges the customers for successful delivers. Customers do not pay for wrong numbers, for erroneously answered calls, or for dropped or partially delivered faxes. These hidden costs can amount to as much as 15 percentage of a customer's traditional fax bill.

Seventy-eight percent(78%) of corporate telecommunications managers do not know the cost of sending fax. SetuFax's per page rates can therefore eliminates much of the guesswork associated with international faxing.

SETU FAX users can realize significant savings-especially if they send a large number of international faxes. You avoid the high charges of long distance carries by SETU FAX Least-cost routing of 40%-90% on domestic and international fax transmissions.

Confidentiality and Security: SETU FAX uses two level encryption methodologies the maximum level of encryption legal for export. Thus, as the fax file travels through the SETU FAX server network, the body of the fax is kept confidential. When the Fax reaches the fax node closest to the destination fax number, the bodies converted into fax images and delivered unencrypted via telephony to the destination fax machine like a regular fax-to-fax transmission. Thus, encryption and authentication procedures ensure delivery of your documents securely and privately. It next travels to the receiving fax number over telephone line, where it enjoys the same level of protection afforded a traditional fax transmission.

Multiple Attempts - Automatic Retries : SetuFax Multiple Attempts-Automatic Retries features eliminate many of the problems usually encountered with conventional faxing. This included busy signals and incompatible fax machines. Busy signals may require the user to return to the fax machine, re-feed the document; re-key the fax number and the then check to see if the line is free. Once connected, poor phone lines or incompatibilities between fax machine can break the fax signal, requiring that the document be faxed again. This means that the customer pays again in time and long-distance costs for the same fax. Even when a fax appears to be successfully delivered, customers often call the recipient to make sure the fax was actually received. And even if a fax machine offers built-in automatic retries, that machine is busy during all of the retries, making it unavailable for sending or receiving other faxes.

Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency: When you really examine the process of conventional faxing, the productivity savings associated with desktop faxing are enormous. Most studies show that sending a fax directly from a PC takes only ten percent o the time required to print out the document and manually fax it. And when customers are communicating internationally, these negatives are further magnified. All of these problems are eliminated with the SetuFax service.

The productivity benefits are even greater if you are sending the same fax to multiple recipients. Rather than feeding the same fax into a fax machine multiple times, you simply send the document one time from your PC. Just as you send an e-mail message to many recipients by adding additional fax numbers, so you can send a fax to multiple recipients. The users would not get an engage tone as the fax is sent to SETU FAX and does not have to waste his time in retrying for busy tones.

Higher Fax Quality: Faxes sent using SetuFax for Internet are transmitted and received as maximum quality images. This is possible because SetuFax' fax only digital network eliminates the image degradation that results from printing and scanning messages that are transmitted using traditional fax machines and regular telephone service. SetuFax's network minimize the distance of the final fax call and bypasses poorer-quality local telephone network.

Cost Control: Customers are charged only for successfully delivered messages. This means that if the fax reaches a receiving number that is busy, does not answer, is out of paper, etc., SetuFax network will make multiple redelivery attempts for the next half-hour at no charge to the customer.

Consolidation Of Infrastructure: Transforms every PC into a faxing device- no need to invest in new fax machine. Expands faxing capability without investing in additional hardware or software. No need for hard copies of faxed document-save paper, toner and fax machine costs. SetuFax is also a great way to reduce the number of phone lines and the amount of computer equipment in your office.

In Small Office: Many small offices may already be receiving some of the productivity benefits mentioned above by using desktop fax software (such as Bitware) and a fax modem to send faxes. However, in this case, each user needs a dedicated phone line to their desktop PC. When using SetuFax service, a small office can focus on providing all users with desktop Internet connectivity only; SetuFax is a step in the direction of consolidating all communication over a single network.

In Large Offices: Large offices may already be receiving the productivity benefits mentioned above by using a LAN based fax server. However, SetuFax services give large offices the option to outsource their fax server. By using a SetuFax solution, large office can avoid the capital investment of a specialized fax server, consolidate communications expenses by reducing the number of dedicated fax lines, and off-load administration and maintenance expense. Even if a large organization decides that they need an in-house fax server (possibly as part of a sophisticated workflow process) they can still take advantage of the cost savings benefits of SetuFax services. The corporate can stop the misuse of anybody using fax line for making personal ISD/STD phone calls.