Dialogic® Brooktrout® TruFax® Fax Boards

Brooktrout TruFax Fax Boards

Up to four channels of dependable fax capabilities for analog and BRI networks; available in PCIe and PCI form factors.

The Dialogic® Brooktrout® TruFax® Fax Boards offer small businesses and departmental workgroups dependable network fax capabilities. These intelligent fax boards support a variety of applications, such as fax server and workflow fax, and offer enterprise-level quality and performance to small businesses.

Features Benefits
Dialogic® Brooktrout® Adaptive Call Progress provides a built-in library of communications algorithms for the identification of and adaptation to various fax machines and line conditions Provides compatibility, high rates of connectivity, and high transmission speeds across a wide range of fax machines and telephone line conditions
Purpose-built Leverages advanced fax algorithms and dedicated fax-processing power, offering performance and reliability benefits in comparison to Class 1 and Class 2 fax modems and multipurpose telephony adapters
Fax-only modulation Drops all non-T.30 packets, eliminating possible security issues related to non-T.30 packets
Error Correction Mode (ECM) - TruFax 250 and TruFax 450 models only Allows high first-attempt transmission rates
Modified Modified Read (MMR) compression algorithm -- TruFax 250 and TruFax 450 models only Can reduce transmission time from 200% to 300%
Onboard fax protocol processing Can lower a fax server's CPU utilization and improve overall system performance
Plug and play Easy installation and configuration

Available in several configurations, Brooktrout TruFax Fax Boards provide up to four channels per board for dedicated send-and-receive-channel configurations. One-channel analog and two-channel BRI configurations are suitable for customers who have occasional faxing needs, but still require a very reliable fax solution. The two-channel analog and four-channel BRI configurations are generally used in network fax solutions. If Brooktrout TruFax Fax Boards are configured to send and receive faxes through separate channels, the fax solution can receive faxes in one channel and send faxes from the outbound job queue in another channel.

Models Channels Interface Adaptive Call Progress ECM MMR

TruFax 100

1

Analog

x

   

TruFax 200

2

Analog

x

   

TruFax 250

2

BRI ISDN

x

x

x

TruFax 400

4

BRI ISDN

x

   

TruFax 450

4

BRI ISDN

x

x

x

The table above lists the Brooktrout TruFax Fax Board models and some of their features. As of 2011, the ISDN telephony interface can be used in Europe and Japan.

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Data Sheet

  • The Dialogic® Brooktrout® TruFax® Fax Boards offer small businesses and departmental workgroups dependable network fax capabilities. These intelligent fax boards support a variety of applications, such as fax server and workflow fax, and offer enterprise-level quality and performance to small businesses.

Technology Brief

  • The Windows Server® and Windows® XP Professional family of operating systems includes an efficient, manageable, and integrated fax server application called Microsoft® Fax Service. Analog loop start versions of Dialogic® Brooktrout® TruFax® Fax Boards and Dialogic® Brooktrout® TR1034 Fax Boards can be used with Microsoft Fax Service.
  • Dialogic® Brooktrout® Fax Software was used to demonstrate the amazing speed at which a fax can be sent with Internet Aware Fax (IAF) technology when used in combination with a SIP trunk that supports peering. – a fax that typically would have taken up to 10 minutes to transmit using T.38 V.17, instead took only 6 seconds.

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Purchase

ProductOrder CodeDescription
TruFax 100 LSTruFax 100-R PCIHalf-size, one-channel fax board with analog loop start interface
TruFax 100 LSTruFax 100-R PCIOne-channel fax board with analog loop start interface; for UK
TruFax 200 LSTruFax 200-R PCIHalf-size, two-channel fax board with analog loop start interface
TruFax 200 BRITruFax 200-R BRI (2B+D)Half-size, two-channel fax board with BRI interface
TruFax 250 BRITruFax 250-R BRI (2B+D)Half-size, two-channel fax board with BRI interface and MMR; available in Europe
TruFax 400 BRITruFax 400-R BRI (4B+2D)Half-size, four-channel fax board with BRI interface
TruFax 450 BRITruFax 450-R BRI (4B+2D)Half-size, four-channel fax board with BRI interface, MMR, and ECM; available in Europe