In contrast, DID gives everybody his or her own fax number, works from anyremote fax machine, and doesn't require a change in human behavior. Fax files delivered via e-mail require special consideration. Expect a singlepage to take about 20 KB to 40 KB of disk storage on average. As you distribute servers around the building, or around the globe, you'llneed to break up administrative duties. Most delivery problems will be theresult of bad fax numbers or unavailable machines, which you probably don'twant to handle yourself.
Some servers allo w for administrative functionsto be split by server or workgroup.
A workgroup manager might be in chargeof a group of users and have total control of the fax queue, but most serverswill allow the senders of faxes to delete their own jobs. You will thenbe able to process usage logs and join them with electronic billing recordsif you have to build actual cost-based charges. You need enough volume to justifythe expense of the server, but not such a high demand that you can't deliverthe throughput. F actor in all the costs, including hardware, software, communicationscosts and administration. If you'll be spending more than 25 cents per pagewith your fax server solution, or if you need higher throughput than yourown server or servers can provide, then it's probably in your company'sbest interests to look into an external fax broadcast service.