Bringing Interoperability to an Ontario Energy Provider

A High profile energy provider in Ontario was struggling to connect their aging infrastructure to their newly chosen Microsoft Teams video conferencing platform. With a critical need to stay connected to a large network of clients, they could not afford to spend a lot of time completely redesigning their meeting spaces and retraining their team on new technologies.

Bringing New Life to Legacy Meeting Rooms with Pexip

A high profile energy provider in Ontario was struggling to connect their aging infrastructure to their newly chosen Microsoft Teams video conferencing platform. With a critical need to stay connected to a large network of clients, they could not afford to spend a lot of time completely redesigning their meeting spaces and retraining their team on new technologies. Our team of Unified Communications experts understood this challenge and implemented Interoperability — a key solution that allowed this client to seamlessly migrate their legacy hardware-based room to a flexible software-based experience. Today their team reaps the benefits of increased ROI due to a budget friendly room refresh that leveraged their existing tech, while enabling multi-platform collaboration and enhanced calendar integration.

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Software-Based Infrastructure for Flexible Rollout

This utility giant needed a simple solution that offered maximum platform capabilities without requiring a compete overhaul of their spaces. Pexip Infinity offers immediate connection to meetings hosted in any platform while ensuring they can scale and upgrade their meeting hardware as needed without disruption.
Multi-Platform Capabilities That Enable Wider Communication

Pexip Infinity allows this client's room systems to connect not only to Microsoft Teams but also many other cloud-based meetings hosted in platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet or Webex, removing barriers of communication with a variety of customers, partners and vendors.
Synchronized Calendar Applications Offering Faster Connection

The calendar integration functionality offered by Pexip allows team members to schedule and/or join any call with simply the single press of a button, made available on every room's control system.

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From Hardware Hurdles to Software Enablement with Pexip

This utility company was facing serious limitations with with their outdated Cisco video conferencing hardware, as it was obstructing their ability to connect to their meeting platform of choice—Microsoft Teams. By migrating their legacy system to a software-based infrastructure with Pexip Infinity, their team can now seamlessly host or join meeting in Teams or any other cloud-based platform such as Google Meet, Zoom and Webex. All while maintaining feature functionality, and having flexibility when it comes to upgrading the devices in their spaces as their needs change.

Seamless Scalability and Standardization Across Locations

Due to Pexip Infinity being software-based, it's capabilities can be upgraded, downgraded or scaled, depending on the client's business needs, at anytime with little to no disruption. This solution offers easy rollout when adding new rooms or office locations to their platform license without requiring multiple servers or adjacent applications and offers higher ROI when making hardware decisions.

Simple Meeting Scheduling & One Touch Join

This client wished to keep their existing calendar ecosystem in place, so we seamlessly integrated Pexip One-Touch-Join (OTJ). This integration enhances the user experience by ensuring a consistent and intuitive meeting join process. Pexip OTJ automatically detects and syncs all meeting invites and room bookings—regardless of platform—directly to team members' calendars. When it's time to meet, users simply enter the designated room and press a single button to start the call.

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Interoperability Solutions

At ET Group, we understand that true interoperability goes beyond just connecting rooms and devices — it's about enhancing human interaction. Our unique, human-centered approach to interoperability focuses on delivering intuitive, flexible solutions that empower your team to communicate and collaborate effortlessly, regardless of the platforms or tools you prefer.

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Customer Success Stories

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Consistent Meeting Experiences at a Leading Construction Firm

ET Group partnered with a leading construction and engineering firm to standardize Microsoft Teams Rooms across multiple offices—creating consistent, high-quality meeting spaces that support seamless collaboration and hybrid teamwork.

Re-Igniting Legacy Tech for Campus-Wide Hybrid Learning at BCIT

With 3,000 staff members and 40,000 students transitioning overnight from in-person to virtual learning, BCIT needed to quickly mass-enable their video conferencing systems to connect to Zoom—and more recently Microsoft Teams—but wanted to avoid a lengthy and costly rip-and-replace.

Specialized AV Across 40+ High-Security Spaces

Since 2014, we’ve partnered with a leading Canadian nuclear energy provider on over 40 AV spaces across secure, mission-critical sites. From executive boardrooms to emergency control centres, we’ve delivered specialized design, programming, and ongoing support—enabling scalable deployments while meeting the client’s complex and unique operational needs.

Budget-Friendly Return to Office: Bringing New Life to Old AV with Interoperability

When this mining organization was facing lengthy and expensive upgrades across 55 video conferencing spaces to enable Microsoft Teams, ET Group helped them breathe new life into their legacy hardware with interoperability.

AV Transformation Spanning 40 Locations and 176 Rooms

ET Group worked with a leading Ontario utility to modernize its audio-visual across multiple sites, standardizing equipment and simplifying controls for instant collaboration. By centralizing conferencing and adding remote monitoring, the solution delivers reliable performance, actionable insights and faster roll-outs of new or refreshed spaces.