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MESSAGEmanager Global Routing provides least cost routing,
load sharing and redundancy and fallback for MESSAGEmanager
Communications Server FAX applications.
Each FAX Server maintains local performance statistics in the Registry, such as the number of fax lines, dialing rules and call costs, the number of messages waiting to be converted and/or sent for each priority, average conversion and transmission rates etc.
Each server in
a Global Routing Group is regularly updated with availability,
cost of calls, processing capacity and current workload
of all other servers in the group to enable host applications
to readily determine available servers and the most
appropriate server to process the message.
When a Client application such as Lotus Notes, Microsoft
Exchange or SAP is ready to submit a message for transmission,
it uses COM to pass the message destination, size and
priority to the local Global Routing Service. Global
Routing calculates for each server the likely time and
cost to send the message, and then sorts the servers
in ascending order for presentation to the MESSAGEmanager
client(s) which then submits the message to the most
appropriate server.
If one of the Servers in a Global Routing Group fails,
then it is not included in the list of available servers
for submission. Should a FAX Server fail, client applications
are switched to an alternative server. When the Server
is back up, client applications use it again.
Users can check on the progress of their messages with
the Queue Manager, which simultaneously displays all
messages on all Server queues.
Why you need Global Routing
You can dramatically reduce the cost of fax calls by
using the Internet or WAN connections to route calls
to a Server able to deliver the message to the final
destination at a lower cost.
With multiple Servers on your network, you can maximize
your Communications Server investments by balancing
the workload across all available Servers.
MESSAGEmanager
FAX, Global Routing (PDF 322Kb)
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