Specifications are designed specific to each category based on, but not exclusive to, industry standards, enterprise class solutions, functional interop or audio/video quality. Here is what Microsoft writes about the certification process “The Skype for Business Certification Program is designed to offer Microsoft customers badges or designations as indicators of third party solutions that demonstrate a high quality experience and compatibility when used with Skype for Business. Only products that pass the specifications outlined in the Skype for Business Certification Program can be associated with each designation. You can have the best of both worlds and remove the technology barrier for meetings. This helps with flexibility when designing future meeting rooms and ends the technology debate regarding what vendor is best. The Pexip integration helps them capitalize on the investment already made and still succeed with Skype for Business. Many larger organization has many vendors for video and audio in their meeting rooms and are not ready to replace all that technology with Skype for Business based equipment. In my design process I always ask what their meeting rooms look like and what kind of equipment are being used.
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How it looks like when a Pexip registered endpoint joines a Skype for Business meeting, from my blogpost on how to set it up Why this has a big impact for customersĪ lot of enterprises moving to Skype for Business has an existing investment in video based meeting rooms. To learn more about the capabilities and setup process read my blog post on the subject For external endpoints that is not registered to any local video servers, they need to dial and type the conference ID when prompted to join the meeting. What does the integration look like?įrom a video endpoint that is internally registered on separate video servers or directly to Pexip, all they have to do to join the Skype for Business meeting is dial the Skype for Business meeting conferencing ID and join directly in to the meeting. The VIS role has the limitation that it only works with certain Cisco endpoints and only with internal endpoints without any firewall between the endpoints and Skype for Business Servers.
Also their own offering, the Video Interoperability Server (VIS) that was introduced with Lync Server 2013, has not seen much development since it’s release. Another reason for this move by Microsoft is probably that Cisco has a good video interoperability story with their acquisition of Acano that happened in 2016. Pexip helps with this story and they can even register endpoints directly which helps the enterprise decommission older outdated and complex video servers and still keep the meeting room investments. The goal is always to have as few options as possible when it comes to how to do meetings to ensure widespread adoption. If the enterprise has video endpoints from other vendors the end-user story becomes complex. Personally I see a lot of enterprise customers moving to Skype for Business Server for VoIP and meetings including moving their telephone conferencing solution. The Pexip and Skype for Business integration explained in one picture Why the certification at this point?
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