Today, we are announcing Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition version 2.0. We announced general availability in April, 2016 letting customers integrate their existing PSTN trunks to Cloud PBX providing three modalities:
Authentication of the local trunk to Office 365 Cloud PBX;
Keep media within enterprise boundaries;
Negotiation of codecs between the clients and a PSTN gateway/Session Border Controller (SBC)
Since the GA of Cloud Connector Edition, we’ve seen momentum from companies of varied sizes who use CCE to connect their telephony trunks to Microsoft Cloud PBX. Cushman and Wakefield, a global property management company uses Cloud Connector and Skype for Business Cloud PBX to empower their employees to be productive on any device saving $1 million a year on telephony costs.
We are pleased to release Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition version 2.0 addressing the most requested improvements by our customers including media bypass, support of 16 Cloud Connector Editions per one PSTN site, the ability to manipulate SIP headers, use of Office 365 Skype for Business accounts and more.