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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I would take it further and say, if you want good and reliable fax service, USE EMAIL! Faxing is obsolete. Expensive, kludgey user experience, doesn’t do anything
that modern alternatives can’t, etc. Nobody would even use faxing anymore if it weren’t for the fact that old people are afraid to get rid of it. Photocopiers pretty much all have scan-to-email as a standard feature these days, for the folks who insist on
involving paper in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’ve done fax-email gateways, ATAs, FXSes, POTS lines, and what they all have in common is that faxing is ancient crap that just plain sucks. No way around
it. We pointed out to our administration the amount of money faxing costs and asked them to consider if they actually receive that amount of value out of it. Response was cautious but receptive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">IMO, the end goal of any fax deployment should be phasing it out, just as with any deployment of ancient legacy crap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Haas, Neal<br>
<b>Sent:</b> April-19-13 12:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matthew Ballard; 'Angel Castaneda'; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] VG202 vs ATA187<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you want good and reliable fax service stay away from the Analog VoIP solutions – we have done all of the above, ATA186,ATA187, VG202, VG224
the last two being the best. With all of these devices your fax machines will need to be reduced to 24.4(?) KB on the fax machines (which doubles send and receive times). I have some faxes that can receive up to 1000 faxes per day. We ended up moving them
back to 1MB’s. Just to be clear we had installed over 200 ports on a range of these ATA devices, a majority have now been put back on 1MB’s just to stop the helpdesk calls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We worked with Cisco for 3 years, even were given demo devises to test. In the end we were on a conference call with a TAC engineer and he said
“why would you use the ATA’s for faxes? I always tell my customers to leave Faxing to AT&T”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you want to work yourself into the funny farm go with Analog on VoIP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">For a different Idea, try FoIP - OMTools. We are going with this solution and have just finished a trial with it and it works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just my 2 cents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Neal Haas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cisco-voip [<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Matthew Ballard<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 19, 2013 10:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Angel Castaneda'; <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] VG202 vs ATA187<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The VG202 runs IOS, which means it can do pretty much anything any other IOS based voice gateway can do (taking into account that it only has the
two voice ports).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The ATA 187 is more of a client device. I know the 186 was much more limited it’s fax support (for example it didn’t do standards based T.38).
I don’t know how the 187 does in comparison, but I found the 186 to be very unreliable in terms of doing faxes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Basically the VG202 gives you more power and control over configuration, and is more capable, but the ATA 187 is easier to setup, but (at least
to me) an unknown level of handling of fax.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Matthew Ballard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Network Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Otis College of Art and Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:mballard@otis.edu">mballard@otis.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cisco-voip [<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Angel Castaneda<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 19, 2013 7:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] VG202 vs ATA187<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">We're looking at moving our fax machines to CUCM 9.1, but we do not have the need for a VG224, as it's only a few devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Other than the extra Ethernet port on a VG202, is there another reason I should be choosing that over an ATA187? Price-wise, the ATA187 is more attractive to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Thank you in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Angel Castaneda</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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