Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling, also available in preview to Office 365 customers in the U.S., provides people the ability to make and receive traditional phone calls in their Skype for Business client, and manage these calls with features like hold, resume, forward and transfer. This preview is built on the proven enterprise voice technology available in Lync Server and Skype for Business Server. Later this year, Microsoft will ship Cloud PBX for customers worldwide, with a configuration option for customers to use existing on-premises phone lines for inbound and outbound calling.
Office 365 is the world’s cloud for productivity. Through these investments, Microsoft is making complete, enterprise-grade communications an integral part of Office 365. The goal is to enable people to connect with one another across all forms of human expression—verbal, written, visual and emotional.
With these new services, traditional calling and conferencing will enter a new era of workplace communications, and also add an entirely new way of communicating at much higher scale with much greater flexibility over the Internet.
To see a demonstration of the Skype Meeting Broadcast experience and learn more about how it works, watch this Office Mechanics video:
