NETWORKING

ADVANCED FEATURES

Combining Transfer Request with Broadcasting

If you wish to set up complex fax message distribution networks, you can make a Transfer Request using more than one Transfer Station. When you do this, you can send the same message to up to 30 Transfer Stations, and each Transfer Station can pass the message on to 30 End Receivers.

Los Angeles

San

Francisco

New York

Seattle

Houston

Boston

Hartford

Philadelphia

Buffalo

Atlantic City

Dallas

New

Orleans

Oklahoma

City

Assume that your machine is in San Francisco and you wish to send the same message to various locations in the U.S.A. Of course, doing a simple broadcast, sending to each terminal directly from your machine, would get the job done, but you would not be taking advantage of the cost-cutting features of the machine.

However, if you incorporate Transfer Request, as shown below, your machine would only make 4 calls, instead of the 10 that would be necessary if Transfer Request was not used. This saves costs.

Your machine can play any part in a Transfer Request network of this type, provided that you have programmed all the required features as explained earlier in this section.

The ID codes of the requester (San Francisco) and the Transfer Stations (New York and Houston) must be the same. The requester must have its own fax number programmed.

The model used by the requester (San Francisco) must be able to make Transfer Requests through more than one Transfer Station.

Reports indicating success or failure will be returned to San Francisco from the terminals in Houston and New York.

To do this procedure, use the broadcasting procedure on page 51. The destinations should be as follows:

Los Angeles

Seattle

A Group containing Boston, Hartford, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Atlantic City, with New York as the Group Transfer Station

A Group containing Dallas, New Orleans, and Oklahoma City, with Houston as the Group Transfer Station

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