Cisco Rooms for Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting rooms

With Cisco Rooms, Microsoft customers gain a new option for Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR): certified rooms that can communicate natively with Teams using RoomOS’s strong container security. This is complemented by modern AI features – without requiring you to reinvent your rooms.

Cisco Rooms as real Microsoft Teams Rooms

Cisco collaboration devices run on RoomOS, an operating system, which was specifically built for real-time collaboration in meeting rooms.

Selected Cisco room systems are certified as Microsoft Teams Rooms and can therefore deliver a full-featured MTR experience, including one-touch join, Teams UI, and a familiar meeting logic for their users.

For Microsoft customers, this means:

• They get a native Teams Rooms experience on Cisco hardware
• Existing Cisco rooms can be used as MTRs instead of being replaced
• Webex and other meetings (e.g., SIP, Zoom via Interop) remain possible at the same time

Thus, your rooms become true multi-platform collaboration spaces focused on Teams.

Room OS and container security: Teams in protected areas

The Microsoft Teams Rooms client does not run on Cisco devices via RoomOS, but rather in its own Android container that is built on top of RoomOS.
This container is not directly visible from the network, and the entire traffic is routed through RoomOS using a unified IP and MAC stack per device.

For you, as a Microsoft customer, this gives you certain advantages:

• Clear separation between RoomOS and the Teams container
• Simplified network design, because only RoomOS is integrated into the LAN
• Operating system updates by RoomOS also include security updates for the Android container – so you don’t need to manage two separate worlds

Another new feature: in addition to the Teams container, a Zoom container can also be run on RoomOS, making multi-platform scenarios even more flexible without complicating the architecture.

What sets Cisco MTRs apart

Cisco Rooms bring their own strengths to the Teams world, particularly in the areas of AI and camera/audio intelligence.
They work with intelligent speaker framing, automatic cropping, beamforming microphones, and background noise suppression directly on the devices. Therefore, they visibly enhance Teams meetings.

Additional features are:

• Multi camera setups: Multiple cameras for large rooms, different perspectives, or specific scenarios
• In-room sensors (e.g., occupancy, air quality) for facility and office managers who want to operate meeting rooms in a smarter way
• Simple control panels (Room Navigator) with clear room and occupancy displays, even in Microsoft environments

Important: Cisco MTRs don’t just work in high-end video rooms, but they make standard meeting rooms “smart” – with a setup that remains manageable for IT as well as for the users.

MDEP and the new Cisco MDEP devices – what’s behind it?

The Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) is Microsoft’s own hardened Android platform for Teams Rooms and other collaboration devices. It is based on the Android open-source project. However, it is secured, maintained, and operated with hardware root-of-trust, PKI attestation, and strict secure engineering standards by Microsoft themselves to ensure that the Teams devices are consistent in their behavior, in updates, and in management.

For OEMs like Cisco, this means that instead of running each device on its own Android variant, they can rely on MDEP as a common, Microsoft-managed foundation and focus on what Cisco makes powerful:

RoomOS, AI functions, camera/audio intelligence and device management.

This is exactly where the next generation of Cisco devices comes in: The Cisco Desk Pro G2 and Cisco Room Kit Pro G2 are the first Cisco devices built on MDEP, certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms, and already being rolled out to the market.

Content sharing: Teams Rooms without additional adapters

A key practical benefit for Microsoft customers is the integrated content sharing, which requires no additional third-party wireless adapters or dongles: Cisco Rooms support wired sharing via USB-C or HDMI, as well as wireless options such as Miracast, AirPlay, Microsoft Teams Cast, and the Webex app – all directly within the device, even during native Teams meetings.

MTR rooms equipped with Cisco hardware become genuine “Bring Your Own Content” zones where users can easily present, while IT and architecture teams build on a clear, secure, and uniformly managed foundation thanks to MDEP and RoomOS.

NTS & Panatronic: visible and audible expertise for Microsoft meeting rooms

For years, NTS has been designing and implementing meeting rooms based on Cisco video devices – ranging from standard meeting rooms to multifunctional boards and specialized use cases.
Together with Panatronic, we equip our clients’ rooms with Cisco video conferencing technology that is already compatible with Microsoft Teams Rooms, while also taking acoustics, display technology, and room design into account.

For you, this means:

• A contact partner, who takes a holistic approach to the room, network, and collaboration platform
• Cisco Rooms that function as Microsoft Teams Rooms – including AI features, multi-camera support, container security, and integrated content sharing
• Proven testimonials where you can “see and hear” the quality of the solution

If you want to take your Teams meeting rooms to the next level without writing off your investment in Cisco hardware, this combination of Cisco Rooms, MTR, MDEP, and NTS + Panatronic is exactly the right lever for you – RELAX, WE CARE.