Experience on HylaFAX with 50 modems

[Royal Observatory Hong Kong <d1swdev@asiaonline.net>]

Hi,

   My department is now using HylaFAX v4.0pl0 with IBM RS/6000
and 6 Rockwell based FAX modem under AIX 3.2.5. The server is
mainly used for dispatching FAX (a daily average of 500 pages).
We are also receiving a few pages of FAX everyday.

   The package is running fine without problems.

   My department is now planning to expand our FAX server package.
The planned server will be used to dispatch about 5000 pages of
FAX to over 200 destinations daily. About 50 FAX lines will be
used in the package.

   I am now writing to see if there is anybody having the experience
of using HylaFAX similar to our planned scale. If yes, what would be
their hardware and software platform ?

   Also can anybody give comments on the comparision of HylaFAX and
some commercial FAX server packages ? As HylaFAX is designed to be
used with different FAX modems, I found there is overhead in
dispatching FAX (HylaFAX used over 1 minute to initialise the FAX
modem before every dialing).

   Thank you !

K.S.Wat SSA(D)5
Computer Division,
Royal Observatory Hong Kong.