Organizations that migrate from a legacy PBX or full-featured cloud phone system to Microsoft Teams Direct Routing may lose important communications capabilities unless they add a RingCentral overlay or purchase other complementary services.
Microsoft Teams Phone is a capable business telephone system, and Microsoft continues to expand its features. However, Direct Routing primarily connects Teams Phone to a carrier through a certified Session Border Controller, or SBC. It does not automatically include all the business continuity, call handling, caller ID, queue management, recording, artificial intelligence, analytics, texting, fax, and integration capabilities available through RingCentral.
This comparison focuses primarily on Microsoft Teams Phone with Direct Routing versus Microsoft Teams with RingCentral RingEX. RingCX is discussed only when an organization has requirements that exceed the business call-queue capabilities of both Teams Phone and RingEX and requires a dedicated contact center.
The Most Important Capabilities to Evaluate
Before migrating to Microsoft Teams Direct Routing without RingCentral, organizations should evaluate the following areas, listed in order of potential business impact:
- Business continuity during a Microsoft Teams disruption
- Advanced call routing and complex call flows
- Call queues, estimated wait time, position in queue, and callbacks
- Outbound caller ID selection and management
- Automatic call recording and compliance recording
- Call transcription, AI notes, and conversation summaries
- Artificial intelligence for inbound callers and employees
- Call reporting, live dashboards, and historical analytics
- Business SMS and MMS
- Electronic fax
- CRM and business-application integrations
- Analog devices, paging, and specialty endpoints
- Administration, support responsibility, and total cost
Some of these capabilities are available in Teams Phone. The important differences frequently involve feature depth, ease of administration, licensing, reporting, user control, support responsibility, and whether additional third-party products are required.
The correct question is not simply:
Can Microsoft Teams make and receive external telephone calls?
The correct question is:
Can the proposed Teams Direct Routing solution preserve every communications function the organization needs to remain operational and serve its customers?
1. Business Continuity During a Microsoft Teams Disruption
The most important potential deficiency is dependence on Microsoft Teams as the organization’s primary calling interface.
A Direct Routing telephone call may depend on:
- The Microsoft Teams client
- Microsoft Teams Phone services
- Microsoft’s Direct Routing interface
- The organization’s internet connection
- The internal data network
- The certified SBC
- SBC software and certificates
- SIP trunk connectivity
- The PSTN carrier
- The user’s computer, mobile device, or Teams phone
A failure anywhere in that chain can interrupt calling.
Microsoft supports active and backup SBCs. Organizations can also deploy a Teams Survivable Branch Appliance, or SBA, to preserve certain PSTN calling functions during a Microsoft or network disruption.
However, survivability does not happen automatically. An SBA must be designed, deployed, configured, tested, monitored, and maintained. It also does not necessarily preserve every normal Teams function, such as voicemail, presence, queues, reporting, collaboration, and administrative services.
A properly designed RingCentral overlay can provide employees with another way to access business calling through the RingCentral desktop and mobile applications. If Microsoft Teams is unavailable or inaccessible, users may still be able to communicate through RingCentral.
RingCentral advertises a 99.999% availability SLA for RingEX. More importantly, the separate RingCentral application can provide an alternate communications interface instead of making Teams the organization’s only path to business calling.
For governments, schools, universities, hotels, healthcare organizations, utilities, transportation departments, and public-safety-related operations, this can be a critical continuity safeguard.
Questions to ask
- How will employees call if Teams is unavailable?
- Is there an alternate desktop and mobile application?
- Are backup SBCs included?
- Is a Survivable Branch Appliance required?
- Which telephone functions continue during an outage?
- Can inbound calls be rerouted quickly?
- Are emergency calls protected?
- Has the failover process been tested?
- Who is responsible for resolving the outage?
2. Advanced Call Routing and Complex Call Flows
Microsoft Teams Phone provides many standard call-routing capabilities, including:
- Auto attendants
- Call queues
- Business-hours schedules
- Holiday schedules
- User call forwarding
- Simultaneous ringing
- Delegation
- Group call pickup
- Shared calling
- Shared voicemail
- Queue overflow and timeout routing
- Internal and external transfers
- Dial plans
- Number normalization
- Direct Routing voice routes
- Active and backup SBC selection
These features may be sufficient for an organization with straightforward call-handling requirements.
The limitations become more apparent when Teams must replace a mature PBX with complex routing across numerous sites, departments, schedules, and outside services.
More complicated requirements may include:
- Multi-level or deeply nested IVRs
- Different routing for each office or department
- Day, night, weekend, and emergency call flows
- Follow-the-sun routing between regions
- Overflow between multiple locations
- Department-specific outbound identities
- Priority treatment for selected callers
- Complex on-call escalation
- Transfers to answering services
- Different routing based on the number called
- Integration with paging and notification systems
- Hotel property-management integrations
- School district emergency and administrative routing
- Municipality or utility after-hours routing
Teams routing may be divided among auto attendants, call queues, resource accounts, calling policies, caller ID policies, voice-routing policies, PSTN usages, dial plans, emergency policies, licensing, and SBC configuration.
A call flow that was centrally administered in a traditional PBX may therefore become distributed across multiple Microsoft, carrier, SBC, and network components.
RingEX provides a mature cloud PBX environment with configurable company, site, user, department, and queue call handling. It can centralize more of the routing, telephone-number administration, endpoint management, voicemail, analytics, and user applications within a single communications platform.
The accurate distinction is:
Teams Phone provides capable standard business-call routing. RingEX may provide greater flexibility and more centralized administration for complex business calling environments.
Every existing call flow should be documented and recreated before telephone numbers are ported.
3. Call Queues, Position in Queue, Estimated Wait Time, and Callbacks
Microsoft Teams Phone and RingEX both support business call queues. It would be inaccurate to imply that an organization must purchase a full contact center simply to receive queue calls or offer callers a callback.
Microsoft Teams call queues
Depending on configuration and licensing, Teams Phone call queues can provide:
- Round-robin routing
- Longest-idle routing
- Serial routing
- Attendant routing
- Presence-based routing
- Agent opt-in and opt-out
- Queue overflow handling
- Queue timeout handling
- No-agent exception handling
- Shared voicemail
- Queue-based outbound caller ID
- Callback
- Shared call history
- Historical reporting
- Automatic queue recording
- Compliance-recording integration
- Supervisor and delegated-management functions
- The Microsoft Teams Queues application
Some enhanced queue management and reporting functions may require Teams Premium or other licensing.
Microsoft Teams callback
Microsoft Teams can offer an eligible caller a callback based on:
- Time spent waiting
- Number of calls waiting
- Ratio of waiting callers to available agents
The caller can request a callback to the publicly dialable number from which the original call was placed. The request keeps its place in the queue until an agent becomes available or the request expires.
Teams callback has several considerations:
- The callback generally goes to the originating caller ID.
- The number must be a valid, publicly dialable E.164 number.
- The caller may not be able to enter a different callback number.
- The queue timeout must be long enough to complete the callback process.
- Callback requests can expire.
- Failed callbacks may depend on an email notification.
- The carrier and Direct Routing configuration must permit outbound calls from the queue resource account.
- The queue’s outbound caller ID must be configured correctly.
- Microsoft documents reporting differences involving callback calls.
RingEX Call Queues Booster
RingEX provides ordinary business call queues, and the RingEX Call Queues Booster add-on adds enhanced capabilities without requiring a RingCX contact-center license.
Call Queues Booster provides:
- Position-in-queue announcements
- Estimated-wait-time announcements
- Queue callback requests
- The ability for callers to retain their place in line
- Live Reports
- Queue and agent availability information
- Service-level monitoring
- Increased simultaneous caller capacity
- Increased maximum caller wait time
- Callback information in queue reporting
RingCentral has also added a real-time dashboard in the RingCentral desktop application for organizations using Call Queues Booster or the Customer Engagement Bundle.
This means RingEX can support a substantial departmental queue operation without requiring a dedicated contact center.
When is RingCX appropriate?
RingCX should enter the discussion only when an organization needs capabilities beyond the business queues available in Teams Phone or RingEX, such as:
- Omnichannel voice, SMS, email, chat, and social routing
- Advanced skills and proficiency routing
- Workforce management
- Quality management
- Agent evaluations
- Outbound dialing campaigns
- Advanced customer journey information
- Extensive CRM-based routing
- Supervisor coaching
- Agent assist
- Interaction analytics
- Formal service-level management across a large operation
For reception, customer service, admissions, reservations, billing, or a help desk, RingEX with Call Queues Booster may provide the necessary queue capabilities.
For a formal, complex, omnichannel contact center, RingCX or another dedicated contact-center platform should be evaluated.
4. Outbound Caller ID Selection and Management
Microsoft Teams Phone supports outbound caller ID. Administrators can configure users to display:
- Their assigned telephone number
- An approved auto-attendant or call-queue resource-account number
- An anonymous caller ID
Call-queue representatives can also be permitted to select between their personal number and an approved queue or auto-attendant number.
The deficiency is not the absence of caller ID. The concern is the flexibility, administrative effort, and carrier coordination required to make caller ID function properly across multiple departments and sites.
Organizations should determine whether employees can:
- Present the correct location number
- Present a departmental number
- Call using a call-queue number
- Call on behalf of an executive
- Select among multiple approved business numbers
- Present a number that accepts return calls
- Maintain different caller IDs for different responsibilities
Every presented number must be authorized, properly assigned, routed through the SBC, and accepted by the Direct Routing carrier.
Caller name and spam labeling
Calling-party name, commonly called CNAM, requires additional attention. Microsoft can send an outbound calling-party name, but the name displayed to the recipient can depend on:
- Microsoft Teams configuration
- The SBC
- The originating carrier
- CNAM databases
- The terminating carrier
- Mobile telephone providers
- The called party’s telephone
- Third-party spam-identification services
Entering a company name in Microsoft Teams does not guarantee that every recipient will see the correct name.
RingEX centralizes more of the PBX, telephone-number, caller ID, and carrier environment. Depending on permissions and configuration, users can place calls using approved business caller IDs while administrators retain control over the numbers available to them.
No provider can guarantee what every terminating network displays. However, reducing the number of separate systems and providers can make caller ID easier to administer and troubleshoot.
5. Automatic Call Recording and Compliance Recording
Microsoft Teams supports call recording, but organizations must distinguish among several different recording requirements.
User-initiated recording
An authorized user manually starts recording during a call. This may be sufficient for occasional business conversations, but it does not guarantee that every required call is captured.
Automatic call-queue recording
Microsoft supports automatic recording for eligible call queues. This capability has specific prerequisites involving queue configuration, conference mode, security groups, authorized users, storage, and administration.
Organizations should verify whether it covers every required call scenario, including:
- Direct user calls
- Call-queue calls
- Transferred calls
- Mobile calls
- Desk-phone calls
- Calls forwarded externally
- Calls handled by delegates
Policy-based compliance recording
Compliance recording automatically captures communications for designated users under organizational or regulatory policy.
Microsoft uses certified third-party solutions for policy-based compliance recording. Direct Routing by itself does not provide a complete regulated recording platform.
RingEX recording
Depending on the selected RingEX edition and configuration, RingCentral can provide:
- Automatic call recording
- On-demand call recording
- Centralized administrative controls
- Recording access through the RingCentral environment
- Recording retention controls
- Call logs linked to recordings
- AI-generated notes and summaries
Organizations should verify:
- Which calls are automatically recorded
- Whether users can stop recording
- Whether users can delete recordings
- Whether transfers remain recorded
- Whether mobile and desk-phone calls are included
- Where recordings are stored
- How long recordings are retained
- Who can access or download them
- Whether consent announcements are played
- Whether legal holds or regulated archives are required
Organizations with highly regulated recording requirements may still need a specialized compliance-recording platform, regardless of whether they use Microsoft Teams or RingCentral.
Call recording must be configured in accordance with applicable federal, state, local, and international consent and privacy laws.
6. Call Transcription, AI Notes, and Conversation Summaries
Microsoft Teams supports transcription for eligible PSTN and Teams calls when the required policies are enabled.
With the appropriate Microsoft licensing and configuration, users may receive:
- Live transcription
- Speaker identification
- Intelligent call recap
- AI-generated summaries
- Action items
- Follow-up suggestions
- Copilot assistance during calls
These capabilities can be valuable for employees already using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Copilot.
The issues to evaluate are availability, consistency, licensing, and administrative control.
Organizations should ask:
- Must the user manually start transcription?
- Must the call also be recorded?
- Does transcription work on every external call?
- Does every user have the necessary license?
- Are desk-phone calls included?
- Are mobile calls included?
- Are queue calls included?
- Where are transcripts stored?
- How long are they retained?
- Can managers search across departmental calls?
- Can summaries be associated with CRM records?
- Can the organization analyze recurring issues across many calls?
RingEX includes AI-focused communications capabilities such as:
- Call transcription
- AI-generated notes
- Call summaries
- Action items
- Searchable conversation information
- Follow-up assistance
The specific availability of these features depends on the selected RingEX plan, add-ons, device, call type, and configuration.
Microsoft Copilot is particularly valuable for productivity across Microsoft 365. RingEX AI is focused more directly on business telephone conversations and unified communications.
An organization may benefit from using both, but it should not assume that purchasing Direct Routing automatically gives every Teams Phone user complete AI transcription and call intelligence.
7. Artificial Intelligence for Inbound Callers and Employees
Microsoft has significant artificial-intelligence capabilities. It would not be accurate to say that Teams lacks AI.
The correct comparison is the type of AI the organization requires.
Microsoft Teams and Copilot
Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Copilot can provide:
- In-call assistance
- Call summaries
- Action items
- Intelligent recap
- Speaker identification
- Transcription
- Voice isolation
- Noise reduction
- Follow-up suggestions
- Integration with Microsoft 365 information
These capabilities are primarily focused on helping employees during and after communications.
RingCentral AI
Depending on the selected products and licenses, RingCentral can provide:
- AI call notes
- Telephone-call summaries
- Action items
- Conversation intelligence
- AI Receptionist
- Automated SMS responses
- AI-assisted customer engagement
- Call-quality insights
- Searchable conversation information
RingCentral AI Receptionist addresses a different requirement from Microsoft Copilot. Instead of assisting an employee during a call, it can answer inbound calls, interact with callers, respond to routine questions, collect information, and route calls.
Organizations should identify whether they need AI for:
- Individual employee productivity
- Inbound reception
- Customer self-service
- Call routing
- Telephone summaries
- Follow-up tasks
- Sales conversations
- Customer sentiment
- Supervisor coaching
- Organization-wide conversation analysis
Microsoft Copilot may be stronger for Microsoft 365 productivity, while RingCentral may offer advantages for business telephony, reception, and customer interactions.
8. Call Reporting, Live Dashboards, and Historical Analytics
Microsoft provides Teams usage reports, PSTN call details, call-quality information, and reporting for auto attendants and call queues.
The limitation is that the available reporting may not provide the immediately usable operational intelligence that managers expect from a mature telephone platform.
Microsoft reporting may involve:
- Teams admin center reports
- The Teams Queues application
- Power BI templates
- Microsoft Graph
- Additional licensing
- Data exports
- Custom report development
- Restricted historical periods
Microsoft also documents specific reporting considerations for auto attendants, call queues, and callbacks.
Managers may need access to:
- Inbound and outbound call volume
- Answered and abandoned calls
- Average speed to answer
- Average hold time
- Talk time
- Queue performance
- Agent availability
- Missed-call trends
- Peak calling periods
- Callback requests and completion
- Transfer activity
- Service levels
- Call quality
- Department and site performance
- Long-term historical comparisons
RingEX provides communications-focused call logs, analytics, quality-of-service information, scheduled reports, and queue reporting.
RingEX Call Queues Booster adds:
- Live Reports
- Queue-member availability
- Queue performance information
- Service-level monitoring
- Callback information
- A real-time dashboard in the RingCentral application
The organization’s required reports should be demonstrated before migration approval. A statement that a platform “includes analytics” is not enough if managers cannot reproduce the reports they currently use.
9. Business SMS and MMS
Direct Routing does not automatically turn a telephone number into a business-texting number.
SMS and MMS depend on:
- Carrier support
- Number eligibility
- Country
- Messaging registration
- Application support
- The selected service plan
- Acceptable-use requirements
Organizations should not assume that connecting a voice number to Teams through an SBC gives employees the ability to text from that number.
This can be a significant loss for organizations that use texting for:
- Appointment confirmations
- Customer updates
- Service notifications
- Dispatch
- Reservations
- Admissions
- Candidate communications
- Property management
- Time-sensitive support
RingEX can provide business SMS and MMS for eligible numbers and plans. Employees can communicate using a managed business identity instead of exposing personal mobile numbers.
RingCentral’s Business SMS Booster can add capabilities such as:
- Shared SMS inboxes
- Team responses
- Reply templates
- Messaging compliance tools
- MMS in the shared inbox
- AI-assisted responses
Messaging remains subject to number eligibility, registration, carrier rules, country restrictions, and applicable use limits.
10. Electronic Fax
Direct Routing transports voice calls. It does not automatically provide every user with a managed electronic fax inbox and outbound fax service.
Organizations that still use fax may otherwise need:
- A separate hosted fax provider
- Analog telephone adapters
- Fax gateways
- Retained analog lines
- Specialized carrier configuration
- Separate support and administration
RingEX includes integrated business fax capabilities on applicable plans. Authorized users can send and receive faxes electronically, and RingCentral promotes eFax access within its Microsoft Teams integration.
Fax should be treated as a formal migration requirement. Every fax number, machine, user, workflow, and retention rule should be inventoried before porting begins.
11. CRM and Business-Application Integrations
Microsoft Teams integrates extremely well with Microsoft 365. A Direct Routing connection, however, does not automatically integrate telephone activity with every CRM, help desk, property-management system, or business application.
Organizations may require additional products or custom development for:
- CRM screen pops
- Automatic call logging
- Click-to-dial
- Customer-history lookup
- Help-desk ticket creation
- Call notes
- Sales activity tracking
- Property-management workflows
- Case-management systems
- Customer follow-up
- Industry-specific applications
RingEX offers an extensive catalog of communications integrations and APIs. RingCentral states that RingEX connects with more than 500 applications and integrations.
Depending on the application and licensing, RingEX may provide:
- Click-to-dial
- Contact synchronization
- Automatic call logging
- Call notes
- SMS integration
- Customer record lookup
- Workflow automation
Every critical integration should be tested before cutover. This is particularly important for hotels, schools, governments, healthcare organizations, sales departments, and customer-service operations.
12. Analog Devices, Paging, and Specialty Endpoints
Most organizations have more than individual office phones. They may also need to support:
- Overhead paging
- Door phones
- Classroom phones
- Hotel guest-room phones
- Emergency phones
- Elevator phones
- Courtesy phones
- Fax machines
- Alarm panels
- Gate controllers
- Modems
- Hotlines
- Ring-down devices
- Common-area phones
Direct Routing can integrate with third-party PBXs, gateways, and analog systems, but these devices do not automatically migrate when Teams Phone licenses are assigned.
Microsoft SIP Gateway supports certain compatible SIP phones. Microsoft also offers common-area phone licensing. Analog and specialty endpoints generally require additional adapters, gateways, SBC routing, retained infrastructure, or replacement equipment.
RingEX also requires compatible devices and proper system design. However, supported desk phones, common-area devices, analog adapters, paging interfaces, and user applications can be incorporated into the overall RingCentral migration.
Every telephone number and endpoint should be inventoried, classified, and tested before porting.
13. Administration, Support Responsibility, and Total Cost
A Teams Direct Routing deployment can involve multiple administrative and support organizations:
- Microsoft
- The Microsoft licensing provider
- The Direct Routing carrier
- The SBC manufacturer
- The SBC service provider
- The internet or network provider
- The emergency-services provider
- The recording provider
- The internal IT department
- The implementation partner
Microsoft requires Direct Routing customers or their providers to manage the certified SBC, public DNS, certificates, firewall configuration, voice routes, dial plans, carrier connections, emergency calling, and monitoring.
When a call fails, the problem could involve:
- Microsoft Teams
- Teams Phone configuration
- User licensing
- A caller ID policy
- A voice-routing policy
- A normalization rule
- The SBC
- An expired certificate
- The carrier
- The firewall
- The local network
- The user’s device
- The recipient’s carrier
This can create divided support responsibility.
A managed RingCentral deployment can consolidate more of the cloud PBX, carrier, telephone-number, SMS, fax, recording, analytics, administration, and support environment.
The exact support responsibility will depend on the implementation partner and service agreement, but a more unified platform can reduce the number of boundaries involved in troubleshooting.
Compare the complete cost
Direct Routing requires more than an ordinary Teams license. The total solution may include:
- Microsoft Teams licensing
- Teams Phone licensing
- Teams Premium
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- PSTN carrier service
- SBC services
- Implementation
- Monitoring
- Emergency calling
- Power BI
- Compliance recording
- SMS
- Electronic fax
- Analog gateways
- Support
- Custom integrations
Some RingCentral integration models may allow organizations to provide RingEX calling inside Teams without purchasing a Teams Phone license for every user. Other RingCentral Direct Routing designs will still use Teams Phone licensing.
The correct financial comparison must include the total cost of reproducing all required capabilities—not simply the cost of enabling a Teams dial pad.
What Microsoft Teams Direct Routing Does Well
Teams Direct Routing can be an appropriate solution for organizations that:
- Want to retain a particular carrier
- Have specialized SBC requirements
- Need legacy PBX integration
- Possess strong Microsoft voice expertise
- Primarily need standard business calling
- Are prepared to manage multiple providers
- Have separately addressed continuity, SMS, fax, recording, reporting, endpoints, and integrations
The concern is not that Direct Routing cannot work. It can work extremely well when properly designed.
The risk arises when an organization assumes that connecting a carrier to Microsoft Teams will automatically reproduce every feature of its existing PBX or a full RingCentral communications platform.
Questions to Answer Before Migrating
Before choosing Teams Direct Routing without a RingCentral overlay, ask:
- How will employees communicate if Teams is unavailable?
- Who owns the end-to-end service-level commitment?
- Who resolves problems involving Microsoft, the SBC, and the carrier?
- Can every existing call flow be reproduced?
- Can users present the correct outbound caller ID?
- Will returned calls reach the correct department?
- Do callers need position-in-queue announcements?
- Do callers need estimated-wait-time announcements?
- Do queues require callback?
- What callback reporting do managers need?
- Which calls must be automatically recorded?
- Is certified compliance recording required?
- Who owns and retains recordings and transcripts?
- Which users require Copilot or Teams Premium?
- Does the organization need an AI Receptionist?
- How much reporting history must be retained?
- Do managers need real-time queue dashboards?
- Do employees need business SMS or MMS?
- Is electronic fax required?
- Which CRM and business applications must integrate?
- How will paging and analog devices be migrated?
- Has every feature been tested before number porting?
If these questions do not have documented answers, the organization is not ready to treat Direct Routing as a complete replacement for its existing telephone system.
Why Add RingCentral to Microsoft Teams?
RingCentral does not eliminate the collaboration value of Microsoft Teams. It can strengthen Teams by adding a communications platform designed specifically around business calling and customer engagement.
Depending on the selected RingCentral integration, plans, and add-ons, an organization can add:
- An alternate desktop and mobile calling application
- Improved business continuity
- Advanced business call routing
- Centralized outbound caller ID management
- Position-in-queue announcements
- Estimated-wait-time announcements
- Queue callback
- Live queue reporting
- Increased queue capacity
- Business SMS and MMS
- Shared SMS inboxes
- Electronic fax
- Automatic call recording
- AI-generated notes and summaries
- AI Receptionist
- Communications analytics
- CRM and business-application integrations
- Centralized cloud PBX administration
- A more consolidated service and support model
Most of these capabilities are available through RingEX and applicable RingEX add-ons. A dedicated RingCX contact center is necessary only when the organization’s customer-engagement requirements extend beyond business call queues into advanced omnichannel routing, workforce management, quality management, outbound campaigns, or formal contact-center operations.
The Bottom Line
Microsoft Teams Direct Routing provides PSTN connectivity and useful business-calling features. It does not automatically provide every capability required to replace a mature PBX or a complete RingCentral communications environment.
Without a RingCentral overlay or equivalent complementary services, an organization may lose—or need to separately recreate—communications resilience, advanced routing, flexible caller ID, enhanced queue announcements, callback reporting, automatic recording, telephony-focused AI, long-term analytics, business SMS, electronic fax, and business-application integrations.
RingEX with Call Queues Booster can provide enhanced queue functionality—including position in queue, estimated wait time, callback requests, increased queue capacity, and live reporting—without requiring a dedicated RingCX contact center.
The safest migration begins with a feature-by-feature assessment. Every call flow, queue, caller ID, callback requirement, recording rule, transcript, report, fax number, text-enabled number, analog endpoint, paging connection, emergency location, and business integration should be documented before cutover.
High Country Workplace Technologies helps organizations compare Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, RingCentral RingEX, Zoom Phone, Mitel, and other cloud or hybrid communications platforms. Because HCWT supports both legacy PBX environments and modern UCaaS systems, we can identify the operational features that must be retained before the migration begins.
The objective should not simply be to move dial tone into Microsoft Teams.
The objective should be to modernize communications without sacrificing reliability, customer service, compliance, reporting, or business continuity.
This article was authored by Jim Whitfield
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