For media bypass the Teams client must have access to the public IP address of the SBC even from an internal network, and hairpinning can be configured on the NAT device so that traffic never leaves the enterprise network equipment.
Checked 2026-09-30
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Teams Phone
- Subsystem
- Direct Routing media bypass
- Deployment
- direct-routing
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- current as of 2026-09-30
- Checked
- 2026-09-30
Sources
- Plan for media bypass with Direct Routing — Microsoft · tier 2 current vendor documentation · Call flow if the user has direct access to the public IP address of the SBC; Requirements for direct media traffic, Note
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 30). Setting up a Survivable Branch Appliance for Teams Direct Routing: source note teams-sba-setup-bypass-public-ip. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-sba-setup-bypass-public-ip
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-teams-sba-setup-bypass-public-ip,
title = {Setting up a Survivable Branch Appliance for Teams Direct Routing: source note teams-sba-setup-bypass-public-ip},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-sba-setup-bypass-public-ip},
note = {Source note teams-sba-setup-bypass-public-ip, checked 2026-09-30}
}