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Pod Fusion provides voice-calling and supplemental video collaboration within your Microsoft Teams User Interface.
Add telephony & additional meeting / video functions to your free version of Teams using Pod Fusion.
Use the Pod Fusion App to invite participants to a Meeting or make a Pod Client call from within the Microsoft Teams UI.
You can now use Pod for seamless communication with colleagues without leaving Microsoft Teams – the only solution in the UK, powered by Microsoft!
Pod Fusion allows you to:
As businesses scrambled to find solutions that would allow their colleagues to stay 100% connected whilst working from multiple locations, Zoom and Teams saw massive increases in their user numbers.
Despite the massive growth of Microsoft Teams, UK businesses were reluctant to move away from their existing telephony solutions. Pod Fusion now brings cost-effective, easy-to-deploy, feature rich voice calling & video meeting functionality to MS Teams – completely changing the picture of the UK Communications market.
Microsoft’s acquisition of Metaswitch in 2020 means that Pod is the only UC solution in the UK to be powered by Microsoft, offering this unique native integration with Teams. Pod Fusion offers businesses large and small all the benefits of Teams, along with the essential features they expect from their phone system.
Example configuration
Minimum total cost of £28.60 per month
Disadvantages
Example configuration
Example Total = £29.60 per user, per month (exc.taxes)
Disadvantages
| Direct SIP Trunking for Teams | Microsoft Business Voice Solution | Other UC Solution with Teams Integration | Pod Fusion | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will this work without paying for Microsoft Phone system or E5 licence? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Will this work without 3rd party integration software? | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Will this work without paying for an additional call bundle / package? | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes |
| Is this solution powered by a Microsoft platform? | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Does this solution include a feature-rich dial pad? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Am I free to use any existing or new IP handsets that I choose? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Can I add PCI complaint call-recording as an optional extra within the some solution? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Is the storage of my call recording free of charge? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Is there a Contact Centre option as part of the same solution? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Is there a Call Reporting option as part of the same solution? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Is there a Meeting Rooms option as part of the same solution? | No | No | No | Yes |
| 100% UK Support | Unknown | No | Unknown | Yes |
| Pod Fusion | |
|---|---|
| Will this work without paying for Microsoft Phone system or E5 licence? | Yes |
| Will this work without 3rd party integration software? | Yes |
| Will this work without paying for an additional call bundle / package? | Yes |
| Is this solution powered by a Microsoft platform? | Yes |
| Does this solution include a feature-rich dial pad? | Yes |
| Am I free to use any existing or new IP handsets that I choose? | Yes |
| Can I add PCI complaint call-recording as an optional extra within the some solution? | Yes |
| Is the storage of my call recording free of charge? | Yes |
| Is there a Contact Centre option as part of the same solution? | Yes |
| Is there a Call Reporting option as part of the same solution? | Yes |
| Is there a Meeting Rooms option as part of the same solution? | Yes |
| 100% UK Support | Yes |
Pod offers all its users unrivalled support. At the click of the buttons below you gain access to a library of video user guides on our dedicated Pod You Tube Channel and our Pod Help Bookshelf. All easy to follow and easy to configure within your own secure portal.