Microsoft's Direct Routing plan puts infrastructure and licensing before SBC selection and connectivity then routing and user assignment and requires inbound outbound emergency failover policy and call-quality validation before production rollout.

Checked 2026-09-06

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Teams Phone
Subsystem
Direct Routing
Deployment
customer-managed-sbc
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-06
Checked
2026-09-06

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 6). Microsoft Teams Phone architecture and licensing: source note teamsphone-direct-routing-has-ordered-validation. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teamsphone-direct-routing-has-ordered-validation

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-teamsphone-direct-routing-has-ordered-validation,
  title  = {Microsoft Teams Phone architecture and licensing: source note teamsphone-direct-routing-has-ordered-validation},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teamsphone-direct-routing-has-ordered-validation},
  note   = {Source note teamsphone-direct-routing-has-ordered-validation, checked 2026-09-06}
}

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