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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
in the Registry local performance statistics 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.
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