Source note · Voice for remote and home workers
Microsoft notes that a VPN can give remote locations a managed connection but adds packet overhead and delay to real-time traffic, and recommends against running real-time communications over a VPN.
Checked 2026-09-25
We recommend that you avoid running real-time communications traffic over a VPN.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Teams
- Subsystem
- qos
- Deployment
- multi-tenant
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- current as of 2026-09-25
- Checked
- 2026-09-25
Sources
- Implement Quality of Service in Microsoft Teams — Microsoft · tier 2 current vendor documentation · Step 1. Make sure your network is ready > VPN considerations (second paragraph)
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Voice for remote and home workers: source note remote-worker-voice-teams-avoid-rtc-over-vpn. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/remote-worker-voice-teams-avoid-rtc-over-vpn
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-remote-worker-voice-teams-avoid-rtc-over-vpn,
title = {Voice for remote and home workers: source note remote-worker-voice-teams-avoid-rtc-over-vpn},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/remote-worker-voice-teams-avoid-rtc-over-vpn},
note = {Source note remote-worker-voice-teams-avoid-rtc-over-vpn, checked 2026-09-25}
}