How Pexip connected video meeting solutions across the sprawling Aix Marseille Provence region

How to facilitate effective communication across a newly unified region

The AMP regional authority was created in 2016, bringing together several disparate entities to form one large governing body to cover the area. To collaborate and communicate remotely, they needed a new and efficient communication and collaboration solution.

Many of the various offices already had conventional projectors or TV screens, but few had traditional video conferencing terminals (such as H323/SIP), many of which were considered too complex to use.

To harmonize and facilitate remote meetings within the territory, the Digital Department decided to implement Microsoft-based video conferencing rooms, called Teams Rooms. Since they were already Office 365 users, they were able to deploy Teams Rooms rapidly across their many sites.

The COVID crisis only served to accelerate the adoption of this service, and the AMP metropolis was one of the first in France to organize Metropolitan Commissions and Councils entirely remotely (in 2020), connecting over 250 elected representatives and councilors remotely.

Finding a bridge to connect different meetings solutions

The AMP metropolis's second requirement was interoperability, meaning the ability to host participants and join any type of video meeting regardless of equipment or meeting services. Those requirements led them to Pexip's door step .