![]() Sure, it may have been a specific flavour of one of these protocols (Skype for Business SIP for example), but interop typically consisted of having a SIP environment on one side and H.323 on the other. If wo go back a few years to a pre-Teams world, VC interop was typically between two camps (well, protocols): SIP and H.323. ![]() Whilst the breadth of Teams native devices for meeting rooms provides a great meeting experience, we of course may still require some sort of interop with other meeting providers in order to meet an organisation’s specific use cases. Conference Phones supporting audio only conferencing requirements.Microsoft Teams Room Systems suitable for a more traditional video conferencing experience but with more advanced feature sets.Surface Hub 2S Microsoft’s premier collaboration device that also support native Teams meetings.There are several devices available that fall into the Teams “native” category, meaning that they each run Microsoft Teams software and sign into Teams without any sort of third-party gateway or interop service: In addition to joining meetings from the Teams desktop, web or mobile client, Microsoft Teams also supports a range of devices that extend the Teams meeting experience into your meeting rooms. Built on cloud first, “hyper-scale” technologies that actually originated from the Skype consumer world (as opposed to Skype for BusinessLync), you will have no doubt have noticed that the media stack within Teams provides an improved meeting experience and feature set than what was possible with Skype for Business. To learn more about the future of Rooms and its interoperability experience, be sure to watch this joint webcast between Microsoft and Zoom, with Ilya Bukshteyn, VP of Teams Calling and Devices, and Jeff Smith, Head of Zoom Rooms and Whiteboard.If you’re using Microsoft Teams, you’re no doubt aware that it provides a powerful platform for online meetings. As this partnership grows, Direct Guest Join will continue to improve with new and exciting functionalities. This web experience provides up-to-date software as well as enterprise-grade privacy and security. Third-party providers like Zoom provide an embedded web experience that temporarily allows Teams Rooms users to join third-party meetings and collaborate more freely. Microsoft partnered with Zoom, Cisco, GoToMeeting, and BlueJeans to create an interoperability experience with Direct Guest Join. This experience began to rollout on May 25 for Poly Teams certified devices, with Logitech and Yealink fast following, and additional device manufactures coming soon. Teams Rooms on Android will initially offer interoperability with Zoom meetings, while Cisco Webex and other third-party partners are coming soon to the Android platform. ![]() This experience helps reduce friction when users are joining calls from external partners or clients who may not use the same meeting provider. Today, Teams Rooms on Android offers Direct Guest Join, a one-touch experience that allows users to join a third-party online meeting from their Teams Rooms just as easily as they can join meetings hosted in Teams. ![]() ![]() Even with Microsoft Teams providing innovative solutions to hybrid work challenges, employees can often work with organizations outside of their own and occasionally need to join meetings from third-party meeting providers. Within hybrid work, organizations have been forced to adapt and reimagine how people will communicate and collaborate. ![]()
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