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MicrosoftDiscontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
As one of the "small number of customers" affected by this, I am finding it hard to understand this decision and even harder to stomache the options. Looks like it's either migrate everyone from 3rd party PBX to Skype for Business Online, migrate them to on-prem Skype for Business, set up some sort of hybrid Skype for Business connection, or stop using Exchange UM. And do this all in 1 year. Wow...
There's another option as well, which is: use an SBC that can deliver to Exchange UM Online without needing Microsoft's cloud based session border controllers. I believe AnyNode has this capability.
- Steve_Conn
Hi Anthony--
Yes, that is Option #3 above.
Thanks--
Steve- Steve, perhaps you can expand on the requirements for option 3 and give a bit more detail on how that would work?
Thanks for the reply. My basic understanding of the traffic flow for a solution like AnyNode is...
3rd Party PBX --> AnyNode --> On-Prem Skype for Business --> O365 (Skype/Exchange Online)
This would mean I still need to have Skype for Business on-prem, right? Or am I missing something?
- This still requires Skype for Busioness enterprise voice license and technically it is doable but it doesn't make sense in terms of cost-effective.
I think you are correct.
To add on to that. Is anynode doing something special any other SBC that connects between a PBX and Skype does? It just seems like it would be a normal scenario where if a user was homed on Skype on prem with a PBX in front of it that the skype client would leverage Exchange UM (on prem or online) to connect to voicemail.
