Microsoft Teams Direct Routing
Microsoft Teams is everywhere at the moment. It is the go-to flexible office and homeworking application that comes free with Office 365 and as their advertising says, “socially distant but virtually unstoppable.”
Microsoft Teams is everywhere at the moment. It is the go-to flexible office and homeworking application that comes free with Office 365 and as their advertising says, “socially distant but virtually unstoppable.”
With home working now extensively used across the UK, it is vital to support employees by ensuring they stay connected and productive. With features such as chat, video meetings, calling between colleagues, and collaboration tools all supported, Microsoft Teams does just that. The key feature missing it seems, is the ability to make and receive external calls via the public telephone network (PSTN), unless you opt to upgrade and include the potentially expensive Microsoft calling plan.
That is until now, we are able to offer Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams allowing users to make both internal and external calls, completely integrated from within the Teams application that many employees are already familiar with. Direct Routing comes with free calls to local, national, and mobile numbers. Users can also receive external inbound calls allowing for a location independent call centre capability. A seamless experience for all of your users, whether they are office based or homeworking. A teams phone system is going to become a very important part of business going forward and a way of future proofing for any event or trend that sees more home working.
Direct routing is the process of routing Microsoft Teams to the traditional phone network (PSTN).
Teams used to be just an internal collaboration tool but now it can be used as a cloud-based business phone system.
Microsoft Teams Direct Routing is the flexible, accessible, and cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Teams Calling Plans allowing your organisation to make calls within Microsoft Teams using SIP trunks to route the calls.
For an organisation to enable Direct Routing, the following components are required:
* Free calls dependent on contract period
Cavendish offers highly competitive packages based on the number of users and type of Office 365 licences required and are able to supply all of the required components in one place. This will include your Office 365 licences, direct routing with free minute calling plans, and all technical support to implement the solution seamlessly and effectively.
Any business using Teams (or looking to roll it out) and wanting to use this as their telephone system.
Many businesses already use Skype for Business as their Microsoft based telephony platform. However, Skype for Business is being retired in 2021 with Microsoft encouraging all users to transition to Teams.
In addition to Skype functions like; instant messaging, screen sharing and web conferencing, Teams adds; centralised chat/collaboration, persistent chat, and much more.
Yes; Direct Routing offers a cost-effective alternative that works flexibly with differing requirements across departments.
With any questions, please get in touch with our team. We are happy to help and offer a no-obligation consultation and quote.
As a trusted Microsoft and Gamma Partner, you are in safe hands with Cavendish when it comes to your telephony and Teams integration.
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Microsoft Teams – Direct Routing combines the pedigree of the UK’s leading SIP Trunk provider with the ubiquity of the world’s largest business communications platform.
As one of the largest network operators in the UK, with a reputation built on technical expertise and voice service delivery, Gamma have an in-depth experience of SIP implementations, working with organisations of all sizes.
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As a trusted Microsoft and Gamma Partner, you are in safe hands with Cavendish when it comes to your telephony and Teams integration.