TR112             twin-transceiver fax card for your LAN
Mix Fax with Your LAN
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Brooktrout's TR112 is an IBM XT- and AT-compatible facsimile card
with two separate transceivers. An an optional routing mechanism
works with LANs and a telephone service called Direct Inward
Dialing (DID). Technically, each TR112 channel has three func-
tions: a telephone system interface, a facsimile modem, and a
microprocessor with associated circuitry.
 
Without DID -- telephone service that allows callers from
outside your company to call extensions directly -- the TR112
works as a two-channel Group III fax card that can send and
receive faxes simultaneously.
 
Where this card's features become apparent, however, is in a
environment with a facsimile server and DID. Here, the TR112 or
multiple TR112s can route mail within the LAN, and it can route
faxes from outside the LAN to the appropriate LAN user with his
or her DID telephone number.
 
In addition to the routing capabilities, the TR112 has a
voice-response capability. To use it, you would pre-record a
message on the fax server's hard-disk drive.
 
Other features include on-board conversion of ASCII to fax
format, multiple type fonts, automatic appending of company
letterheads, a programmable telephone system interface, and an
optional 64K-byte buffer for error-free faxing via the proposed
EIA standard. To facilitate applications software development,
the TR112 is available with drivers for SCO Xenix 286/386, Unix
System V 3.2, Concurrent DOS, MSDOS, and OS/2.
 
Price: $1995; autorouting, $2495; voice playback, $150;
transmission buffer, $300.
 
Contact: Brooktrout Technology, INc., 110 Cedar St., Wellesley
Hills, MA 02181, Voice, (617) 235-3026; To hear a voice response
from a TR112 and to have the TR112 automatically fax you
literature, dial (617) 235-6193.
 
                              --- Roger K. Adams
 
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