Microsoft Teams

After Cloud Video Interop Services with Microsoft this was the Next Thing most of the customers were eagerly waiting. Cisco Cube is now supporting both the Media Bypass & Media Flow Through Capability.  Earlier last year Cisco and Microsoft announced support of Cisco Cube with Non-Media Bypass for the Microsoft Teams Direct Routing. Now Cisco Cube is supporting the Media By-Pass architecture which means this can be used in regulated countries like India, China, and the Middle East. Microsoft & Cisco worked closely to release the Media-Bypass capability for Cisco Cube Routers. Now Cisco Customers can use the existing Cisco Cube Routers for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing Services. The following products running IOS XE Amsterdam 17.3.2 recommended have been certified: Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) for 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) for 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers Cisco Unified Border Elem...

  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. Future Release for the Microsoft Teams IP Phone on the Branch Office Survivability. This would allow the IP Phones to make PSTN Calls even if the Branch Office faces Internet or WAN Outages.   How this Change will Benefit Your Organization ·         Teams IP Phone will support the PSTN Call capability even if the WAN Link is down. ·         Will support PSTN Connectivity with Microsoft Teams being in Offline Mode   Reference: - Roadmap Feature Id 68944

Microsoft Teams continues to evolve to be the hub for teamwork and Microsoft recently launched new functionality that helps people do their best work. Large Gallery View Large gallery view expands the Teams grid view to 7×7, which will accommodate up to 49 participants at once on a single screen. This would be Generally Available soon. The initial roll out is planned for the Educational Tenants to enhance the Experience of engagement between the Teaches and the Students Large Gallery View User Voice. Virtual Breakout Rooms Breakout Rooms allow meeting organizers to split their Teams meeting participants into small groups to assist ideation, brainstorming, learning, and discussions. Breakout Rooms will be delivered later this calendar year.  Virtual Breakout Rooms User Voice Multi-Window for Meetings & Calling Multi-window experiences are coming to Teams meetings and calling. You will have the ability to pop out meetings and calli...

As announced in the Microsoft Ignite 2019 finally the big news in the unified communication world is here, Cisco’s Session Border Controllers, the Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) are now certified for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing. This means majorly all the Cisco Customers can use the existing Cisco Cube Routers for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing Services. The current certified solution is majorly for Non-Media Bypass architecture. The following products running IOS XE Amsterdam 17.2.1r have been certified: Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) for 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) for 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) for 1000V Series Cloud Services Router Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) for 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Office List of the Microsoft Teams Certified SBC has been updated as well with the Cisco SBC Information List of the ...

Most of the Office 365 Administrators find it difficult to understand the Microsoft Calling Plans how to best utilize it, whom to assign the licenses and how to configure it for the users. Let us understand the different Microsoft Licenses and their offering specifically for Small Business Customers with less than 300 users in their Tenant. Business Voice Calling Plans are available in around 70 countries wherein Microsoft is offering this service across globe. Business Voice Calling Plans are available in almost Three Countries currently namely United States, United Kingdom and Canada. This will be soon rolled out in other countries wherein Microsoft is providing the calling plans. But there are no timelines for the same. Below are the Licenses SKU which are eligible for Microsoft Business Voice Feature Capabilities ·         Office 365 Business Basic (previously called Office 365 Business Essentials) ·      ...