Odyssey Services Inc.

Fax continues to best serve many communications applications with its advantages of simplicity, ubiquity--and readership and response rates than are still consistently higher than email and postal delivery. Odyssey brings the latest technology to this mature communications media with a platform that supports V.34 protocols.

V.34 allows for the fastest transmission of your faxes possible—savings that can be as much as 20% below what you are presently spending with other service providers, even if our per-minute rate is the same as theirs.

Odyssey V.FastFax utilizes V.34 technology to deliver faxes at twice the speed as the previously-highest standard and three times as fast as the 9.6 kbps delivery rate still offered by other service providers. Optimized performance results in a substantial increase in the speed of transmission and a substantial decrease in the cost of delivery.

V.34 technology improves the exchange of information between sender and receiver (the “handshake”) with line probing–a process during which operating parameters are “intelligently” selected for the best and fastest connection. This process is continually repeated during the entire transmission to maintain optimum performance. Also referred to as “retraining,” this process of achieving and maintaining peak transmission quality assures the fastest error detection, correction and delivery speed for the entire transmission. In addition to these greatly improved handshake capabilities, V.FastFax performs the handshake process itself at over twice the speed of the other legacy technologies.

Fax delivery rates are expressed in the amount of data delivered within a specified time frame, typically 1,000 bits per second (bps). Below are the delivery speeds for the most commonly-used fax sending protocols, compared to Odyssey’s V.FastFax service:

	TRANSMISSION SPEED
	V.FastFax	33.6 kbps
	V.17	14.4 kbps
	9600 bps	9.6 kbps

Odyssey V.FastFax increases the speed of transmissions by three times over legacy technologies. The example below compares delivery of a three-page fax using three different transmission protocols.

		9600bps	V.17	V.FastFax
Total		133 seconds	100 seconds	34 seconds