This isn’t adding up to me. Unless you’re paying out the ass for an analog line, you need more that just a fax machine and a jack. You either have a VoIP system with fax support, or you’ve moved to a FoIP service that probably handles everything through email anyway (or both).
Unless you already do a ton of business through your phone system and can justify a robust solution, there’s no way you’re ready to just turn up some old All-In-Ones and you’re just better off eating the cost of this outage and going after Microsoft for whatever your SLA gets you.
“Analog” is expensive as hell today and there’s no way it’s a justifiable expense outside of extremely remote areas.
They never shut down that infrastructure. Japan was still using some 3.5" floppies in the mid-late 2000s and still manufactured VCRs until 2016. The fax tech is still very much intact.
we sent like three short faxes in fifteen years at this location, so we got rid of ours here in the office. we will go to the library or to a bank and pay them a few bucks to send one now. we’ve had to do that only once in the last six years or so. dumping the fax allows us the flexibility to also dump the POTS if the landline telcos become even greedier bastards than they currently are.
Considering the average age of the Japanese population I wouldn’t be shocked to find out a somewhat big percentage still use last century methods. Hell, I remember somewhere mentioned the last system with floppies was finally put to rest on the government level (do not recall exactly the story but I think was in Japan)
This isn’t adding up to me. Unless you’re paying out the ass for an analog line, you need more that just a fax machine and a jack. You either have a VoIP system with fax support, or you’ve moved to a FoIP service that probably handles everything through email anyway (or both).
Unless you already do a ton of business through your phone system and can justify a robust solution, there’s no way you’re ready to just turn up some old All-In-Ones and you’re just better off eating the cost of this outage and going after Microsoft for whatever your SLA gets you.
“Analog” is expensive as hell today and there’s no way it’s a justifiable expense outside of extremely remote areas.
They never shut down that infrastructure. Japan was still using some 3.5" floppies in the mid-late 2000s and still manufactured VCRs until 2016. The fax tech is still very much intact.
we sent like three short faxes in fifteen years at this location, so we got rid of ours here in the office. we will go to the library or to a bank and pay them a few bucks to send one now. we’ve had to do that only once in the last six years or so. dumping the fax allows us the flexibility to also dump the POTS if the landline telcos become even greedier bastards than they currently are.
Considering the average age of the Japanese population I wouldn’t be shocked to find out a somewhat big percentage still use last century methods. Hell, I remember somewhere mentioned the last system with floppies was finally put to rest on the government level (do not recall exactly the story but I think was in Japan)