Optus Business Launches Microsoft Teams Calling with Optus

– Cloud-based voice calling service to help businesses stay connected, wherever they are

Optus today announced a new and powerful voice calling service that enables external phone calls using Microsoft Teams.

Available now, Optus Business is offering Australian enterprises an advanced cloud-based voice service called Microsoft Teams Calling with Optus, to help businesses stay connected.

Underpinned by Microsofts Direct Routing technology and Azure Cloud platform, Microsoft Teams Calling with Optus provides Australian businesses a complete collaboration experience that leverages Optus enterprise-grade Evolve Voice capability and Microsoft Teams comprehensive collaboration features.

As more Australians transition to remote working, this reliable and secure unified communications solution offers businesses the flexibility to use Microsoft Teams not only for real-time inter-team collaboration, but as a fully-fledged enterprise phone system using the Optus network, said Deon Liebenberg, Optus Business Vice President Product Innovation.

Optus is committed to keeping Australians connected and our partnership with Microsoft provides enterprises with a powerful tool that can combine their internal and external communications into one system.

Rachel Bondi, Chief Partner Officer One Commercial Partner, Microsoft Australia said: Our partnership with Optus provides organisations access to an advanced, unified user experience that brings an enterprise-grade phone system, conversations, content, and apps together in one digital hub.

With remote workforce activity the new normal, weve seen Microsoft Team usage dramatically increase to over 75 million daily active users globally. By combining Optus premium network with Microsoft Teams, were now able to give customers a comprehensive platform for all their secure communication and collaboration needs.

Optus will provide a complete end-to-end professional and managed service to support customers in the planning, design and implementation to ensure a successful adoption.

By providing both inbound and outbound voice calling capabilities via Microsoft Teams, we are able to help customers simplify their infrastructure, consolidate suppliers, reduce costs and gain a comprehensive unified communications toolset, added Deon Liebenberg.

Microsoft Teams is Microsoft Office 365’s teamwork hub and collaboration platform. It provides people with the ability to work together, communicate and share information via a common space.

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