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David Lambrecht
Brass Contributor
Oct 06, 2017

Skype for business Cloud PBX yes or no ?

Hi guys,

We are a company with 4 sites.

3 in europe and 1 in US.

At the moment every site has his own PBX on prem.

We adapted O365 E3 last year and realy like it.

So our next step would be to implement a cloud pbx for all the sites so we have one console.

So our goal would me to migrate to SFB with pstn (cloud pbx).

Anyone has any experience positve or negative ? 

We would start with a small office of 8 phones and if ok do the whole company.

I heard that skype for busines will migrate to teams so it will be a whole new backend ?

Does this mean it will also have all solutions that other cloud pbx offer ? 

 

Regards,

 

David

Cloud PBX
PSTN Calling
Skype for Business

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  • Cian Allner's avatar
    Cian Allner
    Silver Contributor
    Oct 06, 2017

    I'd start with checking this out, if you haven't seen it already - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Here-s-what-you-get-with-Phone-System-in-Office-365-bc9756d1-8a2f-42c4-98f6-afb17c29231c and this:

     

     

    You will be looking at E5 or the required add-ons for starters. 

    • David Lambrecht's avatar
      David Lambrecht
      Brass Contributor
      Oct 06, 2017

      Hi Cian,

       

      Ok thanks i will look at the i asume this is from the last Ignite so it will be most relevant.

       

      Thanks !

  • Erwin Bierens's avatar
    Erwin Bierens
    MVP
    Oct 06, 2017

    Hi David,

     

    Upgrading to Microsoft Phone System (old name CloudPBX) has some limitations and dependencies.

    US -> Calling Plan (old name: PSTN Calling) is already possible for the US.

     

    For Europe, what country's are you in? If Calling Plan (old name: PSTN Calling) is not available yet, you will need to have a CCE (Cloud Connector Edition). With this appliance you will deliver your own SIP trunk to the Microsoft Phone System.

     

    • David Lambrecht's avatar
      David Lambrecht
      Brass Contributor
      Oct 06, 2017

      Hi Erwin

      Thanks for the reply's.

      We are in BE/FR/US/UK

       

      We would start in UK then BE ... 

      So UK is available BE is in preview so i think it will be ok.

      The CCE does not mean a onprem lync server then ? 

       

      Regards,

       

      David

       

      • Erwin Bierens's avatar
        Erwin Bierens
        MVP
        Oct 06, 2017

        BE should't take long anymore before going public. (it's removed from the SkypePreview.com)

         

        CCE means you need some dedicated hardware (with Windows), install CCE on top (4 virtual machines) wich will connect to Microsoft Phone System and your SBC (Session Border Controller) wich is connected to your SIP or ISDN trunk. (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt605227.aspx)

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