Technical Details

Free fax is ran solely from the United Kingdom and operates across 3 separate secure technical sites with extensive physical and network security.  Here are some basis stats:

Fax Lines

Amount of Available Lines: 900 (30X ISDN30 Lines in a 6 groups across 2 sites)

Servers

7 x HP DL380 G5

4 x HP ProLiant DL585 G5

1x  HP ProLiant DL585 G6

Processors per server: 4

Memory per server 64GB

Storage

HP StorageWorks 6400/8400 Enterprise Virtual Array with 450 GB 10K Fibre Channel

4 x Dell PowerVault NX3000

2 x Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Series

Total Disk Availability for Fax storage: 324 TB

Firewall and Security

Firewall 1: Cisco ASA 5500 (with failover)

Firewall 2: Cisco ASA 5500 (with failover)

Firewall 3: Cisco PIX 515E (with redundant failover)

Firewall 4: Cisco PIX 515E (with redundant failover)

Cryptography

All faxes are compressed and encrypted upon reception (at source) using AES256 (Advanced Encryption Standard).  AES256 is the first publicly accessible and open cipher approved by the National Security Agency (NSA) for top secret information.

Physical Data Sites

Primary Site 1 (450 Lines, 6 servers,

Primary Site 2 (450 ISDN30 Lines) 6 servers

Backup Site: 770 T.38 (VoIP) Lines delivered by MPLS (4 servers)

Data Site locations are not the same as our office locations, and are kept secret and are not in the public domain.

Others

Free fax also runs their own DNS, email and time servers internally.