High Quality fax service minimizes the use of expensive satellite links.

In many parts of the world, public telephone services are less than perfect. This leads to problems for those sending faxes: noisy lines and unreliable or broken connections. Low-quality fax machines are also used in many instances, resulting in further downgrading of signal. What’s more, standard fax machines transmit at 9.6 kbps or more over the Inmarsat link; but the terrestrial phone line might only accommodate 2.4 kbps. This means that faxes can take up to four times as long to send – and cost up to four times as much.

There is a clear alternative: OCEAN-Connect gFax from Easylink. This store-and-forward graphical fax service offers the combined strengths of Easylink’s global terrestrial fax network and the satellite-based capabilities of Stratos. It is a high-quality fax service that minimises the use of expensive satellite links. It also provides onward delivery using low-cost terrestrial routes, and offers automatic retries to busy numbers.

Easier and more efficient faxing

Getting the message across The OCEAN-Connect gFax service offers a range of attractive facilities to make faxing easier and more cost-effective. For instance, each account can be configured with its own retry pattern, so you choose how long we will automatically retry messages: this can be for up to 24 hours if you wish. The Message Expiry option allows messages not delivered within a specified time to be cancelled automatically: we then send a non-delivery notification back to you. Your personal cover sheets can be held on the gFax central system and added to the message, therefore avoiding the space segment cost for ship-to-shore users.

OCEAN-Connect gFax is a specialized store-and-forward fax/telex service for shore-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications using Inmarsat and Iridium terminals. It offers the combined strengths of EasyLink's global network and the satellite-based capabilities of leading satellite providers. OCEAN-Connect gFax is a high-quality shore-to-ship and ship-to-shore fax/telex service that minimizes the use of expensive satellite links. In addition, shore-based users also benefit from our ocean-hunting feature. If the ship to which the fax/telex has been sent cannot be located in the specified ocean region, the service automatically searches all four ocean regions to deliver the message.

Shore-to-ship Features

• Send graphical fax messages from a fax machine or via the Internet as an e-mail including attachment from the shore to Inmarsat A, B, M and mM destinations on ship
• Departmental billing
• Ocean Hunting
• Broadcast Facility
• Various report options
• Value added benefit include automatic retries