[hylafax-users] Hylafax 400.000 inbound fax x month

[Matthias Reich <rei@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello List,

yesterday I received this mail from an amigo in argentina
and would like the list to help matias with his questions
as I do not have experiences with receiving such a mass of faxes.

Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2003 00:13 schrieb Matias Rollan:
> Matthias,
>          I am an open source consultant from Argentina. A company wants me
> to give a solution.
>          They get 400.000 inbound fax per month (38 fax per minute
> average), they don't send any fax, just receive it.
>          I would like to know if Hylafax is so scalable to handle that
> kind of  traffic since I couldn't find anyone that handles so
> many faxes. Also would like you to recommend me what kind of
> hardware, how many phone lines and any recommendation would be
> appreciated.
>          Sincerely,

I think hylafax should be solid enough to handle this amount of faxes.

In general I can say that one phoneline is capable of receiving about
300 faxes per day (24 hours)
You should use rock-solid modems like multitech

The amount of phonelines should at least be the average of 38 faxes.
As hardware I would suggest a Network with a few standard PCs.
Each needs a multi-serial-IO Card (like vscomm or equal) to connect to the 
modems, or multi-modems cards (I do not have any experience with).

Do you want the incoming faxes just to be printed, or do you want to do kind 
of routing, which can be easily done with hylafax ??
These PC need plenty of diskspace to store the incoming faxes, if you want to.
one page of fax is about 500k of diskspace, so 400.000 times 500k is
200.000 MB is about 200GB per month.

So if anyone can give hints or advices to matias, be so kind.

TIA

-m

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