Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

Turn Microsoft Teams into your business phone system and experience unified communications.

Trusted by over 8,000 businesses

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Unify your communications

Combine your messaging, meetings, file management and phone system into one powerful system.

Built for remote working

Remote working isn't going away, and neither is Teams. With Direct Routing, you're prepared for a mobile-first world.

Make significant savings

Our call charges almost always beat Microsoft's calling plans. Save huge sums on your calls across all users.

Disaster-proof systems

Our infrastructure is built to use the full power of AWS cloud hosting, with multiple redundancies.

New to Direct Routing?

Direct Routing is the process of connecting Microsoft Teams to the traditional phone network.

We’ve created a detailed guide to help you understand how it works and whether it might be right for your organisation.

Why us?

We’re one of the UK’s leading SIP technology specialists and played a key role in the development of Direct Routing with Microsoft.

Recognised experts

We helped pilot Direct Routing directly with Microsoft and our network is trusted by thousands.

Easy setup

Port over your numbers from almost any provider, together with personalised onboarding and training from our UK-based experts.

Key usage and billing stats

Access calling records, billing and other key data to help you get the most out of your system, all in one place.

One-stop shop

We directly connect you to the PSTN network through our Microsoft Direct Routing service and SIP Trunks, including providing the licenses you need to enable your business.

A reliable network

Our network is trusted by thousands of businesses for their communications every day.

We use the power of AWS combined with our own technology and experts to make Direct Routing easy, secure and reliable.

Trusted by our customers

We pride ourselves on finding solutions that help our customers, whatever their expertise.

We work with in-house IT functions with exacting requirements, to business owners and office managers who are new to telephony and communications.

"We wouldn’t have expanded without Gradwell and VoIP. I’m still amazed that setting up an international operation and connecting our offices worked so quickly.”

Brian AshDirector

“It was cost effective, relatively straight forward to set up and allowed us to set up a virtual office almost overnight...keeping overheads significantly down."

Clare GallowayDirector

“Gradwell are providing the backbone of what we need to operate, along with support framework to help us in times of need. In short; our experience has been terrific.”

Jon MusslewhiteDesktop Engineer Lead

Join thousands of businesses

We’ve helped organisations from across the UK take advantage of cloud-based communications tools. Can we help you?

FAQ

What is Microsoft Teams Direct Routing?

Great question! This feature allows you to make calls to businesses and customers throughout the world, all within Microsoft teams. By using a SIP trunk to route your calls over the internet it is a cost-effective solution all within one platform.

I don't have Microsoft Teams. Can I buy from you?

You can! However, this isn’t something we currently offer as we specialise in enabling calling within Teams.

How does direct routing work?

We simply host a Microsoft Teams-certified Session Border Controller (SBC) within our own network, which we then connect to our SIP Trunks. We then add another trunk between the SBC and Microsoft Teams so we can configure the line and connect this up with your Teams accounts.

What if I already have Office 365 but not Teams?

Depending on your Office 365 licence, you may have free access to Teams, but you may need to upgrade if this isn’t the case. Talk to us if you’d to discuss your organisation.

What is Microsoft Teams?

Teams is a communications app that offers a host of features such as instant messaging, video meetings and file transfers within an organisation.

Why should I buy from Gradwell?

We are one of the UK’s top IP communications providers. We work with SMEs, charities and larger businesses to help them get the most out of modern telephony and communications software.