Fax Over IP Service works with all fax machines.
Press Release Summary:
Business-quality service, based on T.38 ITU standard for sending faxes across IP networks in real-time mode, can be immediately provisioned on 2nd line of any Packet8 Virtual Office BPA-410 business phone adapter. It does not require any additional hardware, other than existing fax machine(s). Packet8 Virtual Office subscribers can add as many fax lines to their Virtual Office system as they have business phone adapters.
Original Press Release:
8x8 Announces High Performance T.38 Fax Over IP Service
ITU T.38 Standard Offers VoIP Industry's Most Reliable Fax Solution
BOSTON, Sept. 11 -- Fall VON 2006 -- 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), provider of Packet8 residential, business and video Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services, today announced the launch of a new, high performance T.38-based business-quality fax over IP service. Packet8 fax service can be immediately provisioned on the 2nd line of any Packet8 Virtual Office BPA-410 business phone adapter. No additional hardware is required, other than the business' existing fax machine(s).
Unlike other "best-effort" faxing solutions in the VoIP industry, 8x8's fax service offers the industry's most reliable fax solution based on the T.38 ITU standard for sending faxes across IP networks in a real-time mode. Ratified in 1998 by the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) as the standard for real-time fax over IP, T.38 describes the technical features necessary to transfer facsimile documents between two standard facsimile terminals over the Internet. The use of this standard in Packet8's fax implementation offers increased fax transmission speeds as well as a significantly higher level of transmission reliability.
"The absence of an effective fax over IP solution has been a barrier to the adoption of VoIP telephony services, particularly in the small business market segment," said 8x8 Chairman and CEO Bryan R. Martin. "With the Packet8 fax service, subscribers worldwide now have a reliable alternative to traditional PSTN faxing and an opportunity to realize even greater cost savings and functionality from broader usage of their existing high speed Internet connection. Packet8 Virtual Office subscribers can add as many fax lines to their Virtual Office system as they have business phone adapters -- a fax line can be easily and inexpensively added with no additional hardware to each and every extension in the business," concluded Mr. Martin.
Fax Extension, Packet8's business fax service plan (available now), and Freedom Fax standalone fax line service for residential users (available soon), are compatible with all standard fax machines and are priced at $9.99 per month for 300 outgoing minutes and unlimited incoming minutes. Extra domestic outgoing fax minutes are billed at 3.5 cents per minute with outgoing international faxes billed at Packet8 International rates. Additional information can be found at http://packet8.net/.
About 8x8, Inc.
VoIP (voice over internet protocol) service provider 8x8, Inc. offers internet-based telephony solutions (http://packet8.net/) for individual residential and business users as well as small to medium sized business organizations. In addition to regular Packet8 VoIP service plans priced as low as $19.99 per month for unlimited anytime calling to the U.S. and Canada, 8x8 offers the Packet8 DV 326 VideoPhone, the industry's first stand alone broadband consumer videophone, and accompanying monthly service plans also priced at $19.99 per month. Packet8 Virtual Office, 8x8's VoIP system for small to medium sized businesses, is a hosted PBX solution comprised of powerful business class features. Companies subscribing to Virtual Office pay just $39.99 per month per extension for enterprise class PBX functionality along with unlimited local and long distance calling in the U.S. and Canada. Packet8 Softalk(TM), 8x8's PC-based soft phone client, offers high quality voice and video in-network calling as well as outbound calling to the PSTN. For additional company information, visit 8x8's web site at http://www.8x8.com/.
NOTE: 8x8, the 8x8 logo, Packet8, the Packet8 logo, Packet8 Virtual Office and Packet8 Softalk are trademarks of 8x8, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Joan Citelli of 8x8, Inc., +1-408-687-4320, jcitelli@8x8.com
