Cloud Solutions & Services
Leverage the Inherent Benefits of Cloud Collaboration Tools
Enhanced Enterprise Cloud Collaboration on a Microsoft-Certified Platform
Yorktel’s Cloud Solutions & Services provide access to a select group of communication and video collaboration tools designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. In addition to providing the inherent benefits of enterprise cloud solutions, the platform in particular offers:
- Reduced IT maintenance and management
- Scalability depending on your user needs
- Automatic updates
- Continuity across lines of business
- More efficient collaboration
- Flexible work practices – location and timing
Built on a certified global video collaboration platform, our Enterprise Cloud Solutions & Services are a vital asset in Yorktel’s extensive portfolio of Managed Services and AV Integration Services, providing our customers with an additional set of cloud collaboration tools to facilitate their Digital Transformation journey. Our Cloud Services can be managed in conjunction with all of Yorktel’s solutions and services, providing value across your entire network ecosystem.
72% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud to accommodate the hybrid workforce. [Source]
Ready to explore Yorktel’s Cloud Solutions & Services for your business?
Teams Phone Connector
Azure Hosted SBC enabling PSTN Calls in Teams
Yorktel’s Teams Phone Connector provides a turnkey subscription based service for Direct Routing in Teams in our Microsoft Azure Hosted Session Border Controller (SBC). Enabling an external PSTN Voice call to be placed within Microsoft Teams giving your users a successful Voice call experience. With the ability to leverage your existing voice carrier plan, our multi-tenant approach and an OPEX based service, you are alleviated of the requirement to purchase, implement, maintain and support your own SBC.
Our Teams Phone Connector is hosted entirely in Microsoft’s Azure cloud, meaning there are zero hops from Teams to the SBC, meaning the shortest and highest quality path giving low latency and high through-put, resulting in a high audio fidelity and an improved End User experience.
Microsoft Teams now has over 270 million daily active users. (Source)
Gateway Service
Close Your Connectivity Gaps for Enhanced Enterprise Collaboration
Yorktel’s Gateway Service is an enterprise cloud solution that facilitates agile and seamless team communications by eliminating connectivity gaps between disparate platforms, applications, and devices. Users enjoy more efficient cross-team communications and effective enterprise cloud collaboration, without the barriers that often accompany siloed or strictly on-premise technologies.
Incorporating our Gateway Enterprise Cloud Services into your cloud collaboration architecture means you no longer need to worry about what platform your collaborators are using or who can call whom from where. All participants land in a Teams room, for a consistently high-quality meeting experience across your user base. Whether you are using Microsoft Teams, Poly, or Cisco endpoints, Yorktel’s Cloud Gateway accommodates the copious permutations of calls, making your enterprise collaboration experience consistent across platforms.
Yorktel offers two options for our Gateway Service:
Teams Gateway – Preserves the Microsoft Teams experience for those who are already using Teams, including all the capabilities and functionality included in a pure Teams environment.
InterOp Gateway (includes SfB-O) – Allows users of Skype for Business Online to connect and collaborate with Teams users, offering gateway bridging (interoperability) between these two distinct platforms. This Skype and Teams interoperability provides unique value in accommodating Skype OR hybrid environments.
Yorktel is one of only four companies globally with the technical expertise to offer Gateway Services for Microsoft Teams AND offer it on a Microsoft-certified platform.
Virtual Meeting Room (VMR)
Online, Cloud Collaboration Spaces for Intelligent Enterprise Communications
Yorktel’s Gateway Service is an enterprise cloud solution that facilitates agile and seamless team communications by eliminating connectivity gaps between disparate platforms, applications, and devices. Users enjoy more efficient cross-team communications and effective enterprise cloud collaboration, without the barriers that often accompany siloed or strictly on-premise technologies.
Incorporating our Gateway Enterprise Cloud Services into your cloud collaboration architecture means you no longer need to worry about what platform your collaborators are using or who can call whom from where. All participants land in a Teams room, for a consistently high-quality meeting experience across your user base. Whether you are using Microsoft Teams, Poly, or Cisco endpoints, Yorktel’s Cloud Gateway accommodates the copious permutations of calls, making your enterprise collaboration experience consistent across platforms.
Yorktel offers two options for our Gateway Service:
Teams Gateway – Preserves the Microsoft Teams experience for those who are already using Teams, including all the capabilities and functionality included in a pure Teams environment.
InterOp Gateway (includes SfB-O) – Allows users of Skype for Business Online to connect and collaborate with Teams users, offering gateway bridging (interoperability) between these two distinct platforms. This Skype and Teams interoperability provides unique value in accommodating Skype OR hybrid environments.
- 80% of employees prefer video conferencing tools compared to audio or messaging communications
- 99% of workers say video calls improved their communication experience
- 55% of people believe companies are more collaborative when using video calls [Source]