Fax Chronicle

Congrats to Avanquest/Cantata and really, the Brooktrout people. Some amazing numbers in this press release. Would love to see the formula they used to determine that 500 billion fax pages sent using their cards, but it is still impressive. The following is a press release reprint, but covers the basics and the fun facts are interesting.

Avanquest Solutions, Cantata’s chosen Super VAD (Value Added Distributor) for the UK market, has sold the one millionth Cantata fax port.

Cantata Technology™ is one of the world’s leading providers of enabling communications technology.
An estimated 500 billion fax pages have been transmitted worldwide via Cantata’s Brooktrout®-brand fax products over the last 15 years.

By combining this technology with Captaris RightFax, the market-leading document delivery solution for desktop fax, output management and the automatic capture and routing of documents, Avanquest Solutions can help companies significantly reduce their fax bills, replace expensive to run fax machines and consolidate telephony equipment.

“Despite the rise of email and the Internet, the market for fax server revenues continues to grow at a steady rate of 8.2%. Fax remains an integral component of a wide range of document exchange processes in areas such as finance, legal, human resources and procurement,” said Peter Davidson, president of Davidson Consulting, the leading independent authority on the fax industry. “Cantata Technology pioneered this market, and continues to lead the industry, not only in market share, but also with the latest technology advancements such as T.38 real-time IP Fax and host-based fax solutions.”

Fun Facts
The 500 billion pages of fax transmitted via Cantata’s platforms:
• Stretches for 95,033,053 miles
• Could circle the earth 3,058 times
• Would reach from the Earth to the Sun

Source: SourceWire | Press Releases – Avanquest Sells the One Millionth Cantata Fax Port