Tech Talks: Moving telephony to Microsoft Teams minimizes costs, maximizes productivity

Office phone on a desk with email, laptop and other tech symbols surrounding it with arrows pointing to them, and text that says "Cloud PBX" to represent a cloud phone system.To serve as technology consultants to our clients, we need to stay up to speed with the latest IT trends and solutions. To achieve that, our team of IT experts attends weekly training sessions. Our Tech Talks blog series offers a snapshot of these educational sessions.

A renewable power company with employees worldwide wanted to implement a globally standardized communications platform. Leadership sought to eliminate legacy hardware and overall simplify telephony.

The company had already utilized Microsoft products for several years, so turning to a Microsoft Teams calling solution in our portfolio made sense. By transforming Teams into a full-blown cloud phone system, they cut costs and increased efficiency across the organization.

If you want to modernize communications while reducing spending, you should consider migrating from legacy telephony infrastructure to cloud communications with Microsoft Teams calling.

Microsoft Teams calling: Key elements and benefits

This solution makes sense for multi-site companies with 500 or more end users. You can achieve complete PSTN replacement, including DID number ranges and porting, domestic CLI pass-through, and dynamic E911/emergency services.

Additionally, this Microsoft calling solution has flexible delivery methods depending on your needs. Choose from Operator Connect, direct routing as a service, or bring your own carrier. You’ll also have access to Microsoft Teams, voice engineering and service delivery experts to ensure smooth migration, deployment and ongoing operations.

This Microsoft phone offering achieves high-quality routing at affordable prices with a private global network leveraging a multi-carrier approach for reliability and redundancy. Key features and capabilities include

  • Data centers in secure and resilient tier 3 facilities

  • Options to integrate third-party solutions such as contact center and policy-based recording

  • Interconnections with 18 tier 1 carriers

Moving telephony to Teams comes with a number of notable business benefits, including

  • Achieving next-generation unified communications by adding phone to meetings, chat and email

  • Lowering costs by migrating away from expensive legacy telephony systems

  • Optimizing existing Microsoft licenses, including Teams phone

  • Empowering hybrid and remote work arrangements with scalable cloud communications

Our trusted technology advisors are here to help if you want to explore your Microsoft Teams voice enablement options. We maintain partnerships with top Teams unified communications providers that offer advantages like lower seat minimums, high-level security, white-glove support services and flexible licensing.

Call 877-599-3999 or email sales@stratospherenetworks.com today for details. You can also visit our Microsoft consulting services page or jumpstart the shopping process with our free Microsoft Teams UCaaS assessment.

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