A recent promotion held by the Milwaukee Bucks, a team in the National Basketball Association, urged fans who wanted to meet rapper Coolio or basketball legend Glenn Robinson to "Fax It In To Win".
The contest required entrants to send the team a fax with their contact information. Within an hour, fans were asked to slow down their submissions because the fax machine was overwhelmed with requests. Twenty minutes after the first issue, entrants were again told to hold their faxes as the machine was out of toner.
"We are getting a lot of faxes, so please be patient," the team wrote on Twitter. "There's a reason we don't use these things."
The Bucks’ troubles with congestion and toner shine light on the fact that fax machines, while still providing necessary transactions, are outdated compare to cloud-based services. A smarter alternative to traditional faxing is a fax over IP service, like FaxCore, which allows users to send and receive faxes digitally.
With FoIP cloud-hosted software there is no worrying about jamming or fax volume because information is sent and received over the Internet. Users can also send faxes to an email address, search through sent faxes and rely on cloud storage to keep their information safe.
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