Cisco will be a Certified for full Microsoft Teams Rooms and... - Tom Talks Blog

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Well, I did not spot this coming, but it makes consciousness for each parties, and astir importantly, customers. Cisco volition go a spouse successful the Certified for Microsoft Teams programme for the archetypal time.

For those who don’t know, earlier being heavy successful the Microsoft UC world, I worked for a Cisco partner, 1 of the originals to motorboat Call Manager. I chopped my VoIP teeth connected Cisco earlier doing much and much Exchange UM and OCS and past moved implicit to the Microsoft UC side.

In the archetypal fractional of 2023, Cisco and Microsoft volition soon connection the quality to tally Microsoft Teams Rooms natively connected Cisco Rooms, Certified for Microsoft Teams. For these devices, Customers volition person the enactment to marque Microsoft Teams Rooms the default experience. Much similar different instrumentality vendors successful the Teams Ecosystem person the enactment of moving successful Zoom mode oregon Teams mode. This is not conscionable an improved articulation experience.

In Teams mode, it volition beryllium afloat Microsoft Teams Rooms moving connected Android. The Rooms volition besides person an improved Cisco Webex articulation experience, moving a Webex lawsuit for a Webex gathering join, alternatively than conscionable the existent Direct Guest Join. After the Webex meeting, the Room volition instrumentality to the modular Microsoft Teams Rooms experience. Cisco has nary Windows-based devices, truthful each devices volition beryllium Microsoft Teams Rooms connected Android.

All certified devices volition beryllium manageable successful the Teams Admin Center and the caller Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal, arsenic good arsenic done the Cisco Control Hub instrumentality management.

Which Cisco Devices volition beryllium Certified for Microsoft Teams?

Cisco volition initially certify 6 gathering devices and 3 peripherals, with seemingly much to come.

Personal devices:

Cisco Desk Camera 4K – is an intelligent desktop USB webcam and volition beryllium disposable by the extremity of October.
Cisco Headset 320 wired and Cisco Headset 720 wireless – volition beryllium disposable aboriginal adjacent year

Room/Shared space

Cisco Board Pro 55-inch and 75-inch, Teams Board
Cisco Room Bar, tiny to mean country 2-5 people
Cisco Room Kit Pro, abstracted codec, for larger and much analyzable country setups
Cisco Desk Pro arsenic a Teams Display
Cisco Room Navigator partition sheet arsenic a Teams Panel, Wall Mount and Table Stand options

Will determination beryllium a charge/license to tally Cisco devices successful Microsoft Teams Mode?

No, determination volition not beryllium an further complaint to tally Cisco devices successful “Teams mode”. This question comes up a batch arsenic determination is simply a complaint to power Cisco IP phones to modular SIP firmware which is required to tally those phones signed into Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway.

Will Cisco IP Phones beryllium certified for Microsoft Teams?

There are a batch of Cisco Phones retired there, and tons of customers that would similar to usage their existing concern of Cisco IP phones with Microsoft Teams. In theory, those phones tally android and could tally the Teams Phone software, but determination is nary quality oregon remark connected this, and I don’t spot it coming soon.

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