[VoiceOps] Fax ATAs/devices

[Carlos Alvarez]

Things I hadn't even thought about in so long...

ATAs don't do PoE.  Huh.

We don't have a single phone cord around here, so to test this ATA, I have
to go (gulp) buy a phone cord.  Damn.


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Alexander Lopez <alex.lopez at opsys.com>
wrote:

> Fax will not die, at least not anytime soon. Many business processes exist
> that count on fax.
>
> There is a misconception that it is more secure than other document
> transmission methods.
>
> It is universal in deployment.
>
> People are reluctant to give out an email address, and IT is reluctant to
> issue group emails as they are candidates for spam.
>
> One client of ours, stated that he can get a virus via a fax, that it acts
> as a firewall, in and of itself. (Had to agree on that one)
>
> Since the caller pays, unless it's a toll free call, companies may have
> the impression that it will be abused less.
> On Apr 28, 2017 3:20 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
> Indeed. And every time we devise yet another contrived artifice to keep
> fax on life support, we are endorsing this stupidity.
>
> When my native Soviet Union dissolved, the Western management consultants
> descended upon our society to tell us that central planning led to
> profoundly suboptimal misallocations of resources, and that capitalism is
> dynamic, adaptive, promotional of constant change and progress through
> competition. The invisible hand always tweaking structure and supply
> chains, rationalising away inefficiencies and middlemen.
>
> Yet, I give you fax and people faxing from MFPs documents that begin and
> end their journey as PDFs. How is that a triumphal testimony to the
> preeminence of market economics? Where's the clarion call to rationality?
>
> "But we sell it because customers demand it!" they say. Customers demand
> anything that clogs arteries, mutates DNA, and slowly, agonisingly
> suffocates kittens. For once, exercise your moral responsibility as
> anointed beneficiaries of the gospel of wealth, as captains of industry,
> and assert some backbone. Let your perspicacity and insight "trickle down"
> -- much has been made of the wisdom of supply-side initiatives in
> contemporary neoliberalism, no?
>
> It's 2017. Fax must die.
>
> -- Alex
>
> --
> Principal, Evariste Systems LLC (www.evaristesys.com)
>
> Sent from my Google Nexus.
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