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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 im...

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

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
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)