With media bypass enabled in normal operation, SIP signaling still always flows via the Microsoft cloud; only media stays local.
Checked 2026-09-30
Signaling always flows via the Microsoft cloud.
- 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, third bullet
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 30). Setting up a Survivable Branch Appliance for Teams Direct Routing: source note teams-sba-setup-bypass-signaling-cloud. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-sba-setup-bypass-signaling-cloud
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-teams-sba-setup-bypass-signaling-cloud,
title = {Setting up a Survivable Branch Appliance for Teams Direct Routing: source note teams-sba-setup-bypass-signaling-cloud},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-sba-setup-bypass-signaling-cloud},
note = {Source note teams-sba-setup-bypass-signaling-cloud, checked 2026-09-30}
}