Pexip has launched SIP Guest Join, a solution that allows users to join Teams meetings organized by anyone from within or outside their business, and on any device.

Guest Join is Microsoft-certified with Cloud Video Interop (CVI) functionality, allowing users to integrate their video conferencing systems with Teams. However, the solution’s technology is developed such that conferencing systems can process and enable any meeting invitation. As a result, users no longer need further join information to be admitted into any meetings, including those organized by contacts external to the business, and can join with one click.

Anders Løkke, Vice President of Product Marketing and Strategy at Pexip, wrote:

“SIP Guest Join enables anyone in an organization with CVI capabilities to join meetings from anyone inside or outside their organization. You are no longer limited to joining meetings that have the so-called CVI coordinates in them (additional join details). A standard Teams invite is all it takes. The technology you have will figure out and enable your video conferencing system to join that meeting. With one single press of a button.”

CVI became a popular investment during the pandemic because video conferencing systems were not natively compatible with Teams. CVI allowed businesses’ conferencing systems to join Teams so they could organize video meetings within their established set-ups. However, CVI was initially designed to bring attendees into users’ Teams meetings rather than as a way for users to join other Teams meetings, including those organized by contacts outside the business. This is the issue that Guest Join addresses.

Løkke expanded: “At last, there’s a way for you to join any Teams meeting. Regardless of who the invite came from. You, your partners, your customers. Or your child’s teacher for that matter(…) Pexip did all the magic in the back end so you don’t have to scratch your head (or answer the questions from the leadership team) on things that don’t work the way you expected them to.”

Guest Join is Pexip’s Latest Collaboration With Vendors

Pexip has been building collaborative solutions with vendors for some time. Last year, Pexip updated its Room Connector to allow Google Meet users to join third-party video conferencing calls, even if the meeting host had not directly enabled Pexip interoperability. The solution allowed businesses to introduce Google Meet operability to all their meeting rooms, with features ranging from dual-screen support to content sharing between users.

As well as longstanding partnerships with vendor giants in Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business, Pexip also launched a collaboration with unified communications distribution company Nuvias UC last year. Pexip’s capacity to deliver a complete cloud-native platform for its channel partners was an attractive proposition for Nuvias, which was looking to bolster its portfolio with innovative video conferencing solutions.

 

 



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