GTT, Microsoft Partner to Support Operator Connect Capabilities

GTT Communications, Inc., a global provider of managed network and security services to multinational organizations, was designated as a certified partner for Microsoft Operator Connect, giving clients a simpler and more reliable path to the productivity gains of integrated SIP Trunking voice-over-IP service integrated with Microsoft Teams.

As more enterprises adopt the voice-over-IP capabilities of Microsoft Teams, a disruptive unified communications tool used by enterprises around the world to increase employee productivity, Operator Connect provides a tool for administrators to assign Teams user numbers and call plans more quickly and efficiently. With today’s announcement, GTT is positioned to deliver those capabilities on a global scale.

“GTT’s Operator Connect offers direct peering and integration with Microsoft Teams worldwide in a way that is easy and quick to deploy and offers superior support and reliability,” said Todd Kiehn, senior vice president of Strategy & Product, GTT. “As a certified partner, GTT now provides our SIP Trunking service integrated with Microsoft Teams to give customers a resilient, easy-to-use calling solution to help their employees to stay productive. Regardless of whether we are working with a new or existing customer, the joint solution provides an easy onboarding process and simple and quick access to voice calling over a collaboration platform which our customers’ employees are already familiar with.”

GTT Partners with Microsoft

Delivering critical business communication capabilities over a single IP connection, GTT SIP Trunking improves collaboration and infrastructure efficiency to help drive productivity and efficiency. GTT’s fully redundant, global and robust SIP-based network has been purpose-built to meet the demands of bandwidth-intensive applications like Microsoft Teams. The company delivers SIP Trunking across a diverse, low-latency Tier 1 IP backbone network that covers six continents and includes geographically redundant session border controllers to facilitate scalability.

GTT is a managed network and security services provider to global organizations. The company designs and delivers solutions that leverage advanced cloud, networking and security technologies.

It is serving thousands of national and multinational companies with a portfolio that includes SD-WAN, security, Internet, voice and other connectivity options.