Relay Broadcasting And Relay Broadcast Initiation; How It Works - Pitney Bowes 4100 Operator's Manual

Relay broadcasting and relay broadcast initiation

Relay broadcasting is a powerful function that takes advantage of a
remote Pitney Bowes "hub" fax machine's memory to reduce your total
communication costs.
A "hub" fax machine is one to which you send a document, so the "hub"
can relay it to other machines which you don't actually call. The "hub"
performs a relay broadcast, and the machine which sends the original
document to the "hub" has performed a relay broadcast initiation. Your
fax machine can perform either operation; in other words, your machine
can either send to a "hub" unit or be a "hub" unit.

How it works

Let's use this example: when you mail invitations to a party, you're taking
part in a relay operation. After all, you're not personally delivering each
invitation to its destination; rather, you're sending all of the invitations to
one central point (the post office) which then actually does "broadcast' the
invitations.
Now, let's be a little more specific about what happens when you perform
relay broadcast initiation:
• You use your fax machine to send a document to at least one call group
in a remote "hub" machine's autodialer. This can occur either
immediately or as a delayed command (see pages 117-122).
• The remote "hub" unit receives your document and stores it in memory.
• The remote machine retransmits, or relays, the document to each fax
number in each call group you specified. This is the relay broadcast
you initiated.
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