Re: [hylafax-users] FW: Multiple PCI modems?

[Jeff Herring <jeffh@sldsi.com>]

At 10:52 PM 7/19/02 +0800, Andrew Chan wrote:
>Hello Tony,
>
>Let me first explain that junk fax is an "acceptable" (but obviously not
>loved) business practice here in Hong Kong... :-) Just in case you call me a
>spammer. Plus the fax numbers we are talking about here are obtained through
>legitimate channels, mostly through local government SME business databases.
>
>Well, the goal is to send 50,000 one page fax "as soon as" possible
>utilizing 5 to 8 office phone lines during the night.
>
>Right now my client has 3 PCs running WinFAX each having their own modems
>pumping out faxes at night. She is saying each page takes 3 minutes no less,
>my guess is most of it is unproductive time waiting for the PC to convert
>the Word document into TIFF, and each destination means another conversion
>because the name of the receipent company has to be merged in. The actual
>transmission in fine mode I think takes about 1 min 15 seconds.

50000 faxes X 75 Seconds/fax
---------------------------- ~= 1042 Hours
3600 Seconds/Hour

1042 Hours / 8 MODEMS ~= 130 Hours/MODEM

130 Hours/MODEM
--------------- ~= 11 Days to Transmit 50,000 1 Page Faxes using 8 MODEMS 
at 12 Hours per day
12 Hours/Day

Is my math correct?

Is this going to be OK with the client?


>At that rate it will take forever to finish the 50,000 faxes, and she is
>looking at adding modems and WinFAX software to another 5 PCs. I told her I
>have a better solution both in terms of speed and "manageability". I believe
>Hylafax can use the day time to do all the ghostscript Postscript to TIFF
>conversion and have the files waiting to be transmitted at night, so the
>modem will be utilized 100% during night time.
>
>But now I run into a brick wall in terms of finding a cheap hardware
>solution.
>
>====================
>
>How many faxes are they looking at sending/receiving per day?
>
>Tony.
>
>
>
>
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