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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:
- Teams connectivity fundamentals:
- Signalling vs Media
- Protocols
- Media flow (peer to peer vs conference)
- 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)
- 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
- Administration consideration:
- Skilled resources
- Device management (firmware, App, Config etc.)
- Managed services
- MACDs
- Platform updates (how to keep up)
- 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
Attendees (33)

Marc Laczniak
Jr. Network Engineer at Arapahoe County Government

Luke Mazuran
Site Reliability Engineer at Utah Valley University

Tyler Poston
Manager, Solution Architects at NTT Data

Greg Hinson
Lead Principal Architect at AT&T

Kelly Schroeder
Director of IT at Colorado Early Colleges

Brian Rappe
Senior Director, Sales at LoopUp

Daniel Bey
National Support Services Manager at Sentinel Technologies Inc.

Charles Shober
Systems Administrator IV at Weld County Government

Manny Oliveira
Channel Account Manager at SIPPIO

Andrew Steinke
VP of Partner Development at BCM One

Charles Simons
VOIP/Telecommunication Tech at Weld County IT

Ian Crow
Systems Administrator at Denver Art Museum

Ron Wolfe
VP, Microsoft Practice at AVISPL

Gary Woods
Vice President Sales - offering Operator Connec... at Pure IP

Phil Moen
President and CEO at Unimax

James Conyers
Sr. Network Engineer at Arapahoe County Government
+17 other Attendees