11. Fax evolution
The arrival of the Internet has not dampened the success of faxing. In fact, sales of fax machines continue to grow, and their use continues unabated.
But will faxing be left out of the Internet wave?
No way!
The Internet should open up new prospects for faxing. Fax transmission over the Internet benefits from lower tariffs, but this argument has not yet led to a considerable number of fax machines being installed on the Internet.
On the other hand, IP telephony is set to become increasingly popular in the corporate sector. This reduces internal connection costs by eliminating the internal telephone network (the local computer network supports all exchanges), and takes advantage of the voice-data-image synergy enabled by the IP protocol.
Fax over IP could benefit...
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Bibliography
Reference
Standards bodies
Union International de Télécommunication (UIT) (International Telecommunication Union) http://www.itu.int/home/index-fr.html
French Standards Agency (AFNOR) http://www.afnor.fr/
European Telecommunications Standards Institute...
Websites
Sites where norms and standards can be obtained :
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ETSI http://www.etsi.org
ISO...
Standards and norms
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International Standard Institute (ISO)
- Technologies de l'information. Jeux de caractères graphiques codés sur un seul octet. Partie 1 : alphabet latin n 1 - ISO/IEC 8859-1 - 1998
- Technologies de l'information. Représentation codée des images et du son. Compression progressive des images en deux tons - ISO/IEC 11544 - 1993
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