SBA (Survivable Branch Appliance) Support for Microsoft Teams Phone System

 

Most of the Organization have now started adopting Microsoft Teams Phone System Services directly from the Cloud. With the recent outages the demand for a backup services for the Teams Telephony services have voiced out from the customer.

In the recently concluded Microsoft Ignite 2020 Event it was announced that Microsoft is coming with the concept of SBA (Survivable Branch Appliance). Microsoft is already with its vendors namely AudioCodes and Ribbon for the quick initial roll out of the Feature to the Microsoft Teams Telephony Platform.



Ribbon will be rolling out SBA support for Teams in SBC 1000 & SBC 2000 9.0.x release, in concert with Microsoft making it generally available for Teams. AudioCodes will also be providing Teams Survivable Branch Appliances.

 

How this Change will Benefit Your Organization

·        SBA will support the PSTN Call capability even if the WAN Link is down.

·        Will support PSTN Connectivity with Microsoft Teams being in Offline Mode

·        In Future - Enable P2P Calling so Teams Users at the affected site can make VoIP Calls to each other.

·        Registration of the Microsoft Teams Certified IP Phones to the SBA will be added as a Future Capability 


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