Microsoft just finished their Enterprise Connect keynote
You can watch the full session on Skype Broadcast Here, also check out the Microsoft blog post here
Key comments:
- 100 Million Meetings per month
- Thousands of Customers in Production using Cloud PBX and PSTN Conferencing
- One experience for users
- April the Cloud Connector Edition (connects Cloud PBX to your on-prem carrier) will launch, free VM’s
- Confirmed you can Port your existing numbers from any carrier to Microsoft PSTN Calling
- By mid-year 2016 the UK will get Microsoft PSTN Calling (Microsoft as the carrier)
- Cloud PBX Auto attendant Demo
- 60% of meeting attendees attend from Meeting rooms, which often only have a display and a PSTN phone
Demo of quickly setting up 50 users with PowerShell
Dig at how complex Cisco Unified Communications Manager is
Verses the Office 365 portal with “tick box” admin (Chrome user, the new Microsoft :-)
or with PowerShell
Polycom VVX Phone with Skype UI, registered to Cloud PBX and firmware updates from the Cloud
Microsoft PSTN Conferencing
Logitech Surface as controller,standard surface pro 4 in a logitech “smart dock” – “Project Rigel”, Polycom Trio
1 touch meeting join
Check out Adam Jacobs from Polycom on the roster
CX5100
Polycom Group Series Video endpoints will work with SfB Server and SfB Online
“Cloud based Video interoperability service” for O365, joined from a Cisco SX10 – 2nd half calendar year
Understand usage, issues and
Prem and Cloud Hybrid (the Event Zero technology Microsoft acquired)
Live view:
Manage DID’s Manage Phones, complete management solution
Amazon, Microsoft and Google have the three big clouds, but only Microsoft’s is “communications ready”
Shows language transcription translation on Skype Broadcast in real time!
Coming second half of 2016 – only possible with the Microsoft Cloud
