[cisco-voip] big news - Microsoft and Cisco collaborating again!

[Pawlowski, Adam]

Reading into the blog there are two parts to this as far as I can tell.

One of them is some sort of interop, which I’m going to guess maybe something similar to CMS or a cloud equivalent. The experience on that who knows.

The other one appears to be using WebRTC based “guest join” applications on the room kit hardware itself. That’s a bit of a moving target if the vendors aren’t working together but it would be very much so needed to be able to join Zoom or GoToMeeting meetings that no one pays for the premium services for.

The call control strip in that ‘video’ on the blog post doesn’t appear to me to be a Cisco one so maybe that is the WebRTC mockup?





From: cisco-voip <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net> On Behalf Of James Buchanan
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I didn't see anything in the announcement about CUCM period. I thought it was really the ability to join each other's meetings from each other's room-based video systems. Issues such as federation, etc. don't seem to be addressed in the announcement.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:49 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:
It will be interesting to see how much CUCM integration there is. From what I gather, it's going to be Webex room kits that are cloud registered that will have access. But, who knows, could be more!

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On 5/11/19 8:21 pm, Palmer, Brian wrote:
> I always figured that Microsoft would utilize Office365 to push more
> away from Cisco products and into the Microsoft Realm.  Microsoft will
> offer enterprise products for free in order to pull them into the fold.
> I figure all Microsoft needs now is to just buy a company that can
> fill the void they lack in the collaboration space and then they can
> attempt to offer an even fuller offering with office included.

Microsoft is trying to build out their cloud PBX product, but it's nowhere near enterprise. My suspicion is that some big Microsoft O365 customers with complicated CUCM environments wanted to connect it to MS Teams, and Cisco didn't want people to rip out Webex room systems for MS Teams Room systems.

Personally I'm quite happy since we fall into the first category, we're heavily into the Microsoft ecosystem but have CUCM, and were looking at ripping it out so we could get Teams integration, but concluded that Teams Phones and Cloud PBX wasn't mature enough for us (yet).

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