Lack of Fax over IP support (FoIP)

The lack of good Fax over IP (hereinafter referred to as FoIP) with full T.38 support in most countries is very concerning. This is making fax server solutions supporting FoIP mostly useless for low cost faxing.

The most useful need for FoIP is when a company has a number of landlines, especially fixed-rate landlines, that have to remain. In this case a FoIP gateway device (or box) would be used to serve as a gateway and connect the company's network infrastructure directly with the landlines accessible via the FoIP interface. The fax server would then just need to connect to the box's in-built FoIP gateway to send and receive faxes.

The fully featured FaxSkape Fax Server from GoldBolt Software has full support for FoIP making it a viable solution for these types of FoIP gateways.

If the network providers would support the full FoIP T.38 protocol with a good infrastructure, we could have very cheap faxing rates to and from all countries like we already do for Voice over IP.