A Real Time System for Multicast Fax using IP Network

Despite the growing popularity of e-mail, the venerable facsimile machine still rules the offices. In a world where a significant percentage of long distance Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) traffic is composed of fax, great savings in toll charges can be made possible by utilizing IP networks instead. This paper addresses our proposed architecture and development efforts in constructing a real-time implementation of multicasting in fax over Internet. The paper also demonstrates some practices for transmission of facsimile to multiple nodes using inter network.