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Do Your Due Diligence: How to Plan Your Teams Phone Journey the Right Way!

16th Apr 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT Platte River
33 attended
Session Description

This session will be focused on key areas to consider while planning your journey to transition your voice workload to Microsoft Teams to ensure optimal user experience and boost user adoption.  Following are the topics for discussion for this session:

  1. Teams connectivity fundamentals:
    • Signalling vs Media
    • Protocols 
    • Media flow (peer to peer vs conference)
  2. Network considerations:
    • Overall topolgy
    • Internet Egress, Bandwidth, Peering
    • DNS Resolution
    • Split VPN
    • WiFi coverage, band steering, Interference etc.
    • Network subnetting (LIS)
    • Network Planner (load simulation)
    • Network Assessment testing (wired & wireless)
  3. Telephony considerations:
    • Inventory - DID, TFNs 
    • DID vs Extention (consider shared calling)
    • PSTN Usage Data & Coverage
    • Physical phones, Attandant consoles, Softphone
    • SIP, Analog endpoints (paging, intercom, doorbell etc.)
    • 3rd party integrations
    • Reporting needs
  4. Administration consideration:
    • Skilled resources
    • Device management (firmware, App, Config etc.)
    • Managed services
    • MACDs 
    • Platform updates (how to keep up)
  5. Design & Pilot Teams Phone
    • Design overall Teams Phone solution
    • Pilot Enablement (test numbers)
    • Execute Test cases
    • Plan production migration (phase's)
    • End user Training 
    • Track user adoption 

Satyendra Sharma

Sr Solutions Architect
Netrix Global
Attendees (33)
Charles Simons
VOIP/Telecommunication Tech at Weld County IT
Sonali Karnik
Head of Product Marketing at Tekvizion PVS, Inc.
Kai Xu
Director - BD Strategic Alliances - NA at Imagicle
Travis Krings
Sr Network Engineer at Arapahoe County Government
Gary Woods
Vice President Sales - offering Operator Connec... at Pure IP
Phil Moen
President and CEO at Unimax
Dena Lopez
Collaboration Engineer at Suffolk Construction
Dan Brinkmann
COO at Summit Technology
Charles Shober
Systems Administrator IV at Weld County Government
Kelly Schroeder
Director of IT at Colorado Early Colleges
Tyler Poston
Manager, Solution Architects at NTT Data
Brad Wuest
IT Manager at Truckee Donner PUD
Greg Hinson
Lead Principal Architect at AT&T
Mark Harkleroad
Network & Voice Infrastructure Manager at Arapahoe County Government
Brian Rappe
Senior Director, Sales at LoopUp
Luke Mazuran
Site Reliability Engineer at Utah Valley University
+17 other Attendees