Microsoft prepares an "economy" way for Teams to consume less bandwidth with video calls

A few hours ago we saw how Teams was preparing to receive an important improvement, such as the ability to have real-time text transcription of the audio that a participant is generating in a video call. And it's video calls, the stars again of another new improvement coming to Teams

And it is that with stable connections and high bandwidth, video calls and group meetings may not offer problems, but weaker network connections do suffer.And that's what Microsoft wants to solve by enabling a mode for lower consumption of bandwidth.

Video calls accessible to all

And the fact is that video streaming is quite gluttonous when it comes to consuming data and occupying bandwidth In strong connections this is not It is noticeable, but when the capacity is tighter, the user experience suffers significantly and can cause other applications to be affected.

With this enhancement, users will be able to limit the amount of data used during video calls in case of limited data grid.

Many companies have opted to make use of voice calls only, doing without video calls. Something that will not be necessary with the measure that Microsoft is already working on implementing for Teams. A low data consumption mode:

Microsoft has detailed on the Microsoft 365 support page how it plans to enable this enhancement later this month, a feature At the moment it will only affect the desktop application that we can find in macOS and Windows, but not the web client.

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