Microsoft Teams Insider What Cisco Rooms bring to Microsoft Teams Rooms
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Dec 2, 2025 Tom Richards, Senior Director of Strategy and Planning at Cisco, dives into the transformative partnership between Cisco and Microsoft, revealing how they now collaboratively enhance Teams Rooms. He highlights the innovative engineering behind combining Android and RoomOS for seamless management. Topics include cutting-edge AI capabilities like real-time noise removal and intelligent camera framing. Additionally, he discusses the flexibility for organizations to navigate between native MTR mode and RoomOS UI, marking a significant evolution in workplace collaboration technology.
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From Competitors To Co-Engineers
- Cisco and Microsoft moved from competition to full engineering collaboration to deliver complete MTR experiences.
- Both companies agreed not to strip device capabilities, enabling enterprise-grade features on Teams Rooms.
Large-Scale MTR Rollouts Happening Now
- Cisco has customers with more than 2,000 registered MTR devices and rapid quarterly rollouts.
- One large customer deployed roughly 800 MTR devices in a single quarter.
Manage Software As One Validated Package
- Containerize vendor apps so you can manage Room OS and MTR as a single validated package.
- Deploy combined software updates to avoid version control and simplify large-scale rollouts.