How to optimize Skype for Business on any device.
As you read (you did read, is not it?) In "secure Skype for Business in a mobile world" sensitive Skype store business data in the data center is a safe alternative to help ensure files, contacts, logs and all stay healthy within the company vault. and hosting Skype for Business on XenApp provides a safe and efficient way to keep the applications, in addition to the data that they use. Until you try to make a voice and video call, that is.
Yes, logic would dictate that the performance for voice and video would be degraded due to what we call the hairpin or Tromboning effect. That is if your local camera, microphone and speakers have to send voice and video to the data center, where it makes a return trip to the person you are calling, the other 800 miles could be removed.
Let us in the first part of this series on the example look, "Skype for Business - a paradise 'Cyberpirates"
I'm in Boston. My company Skype is for companies to XenApp in our data center in Washington, DC. I call Penny, who is in Chicago and running on a XenApp server in Indianapolis Skype for Business. My voice and video is from my microphone and camera in Boston to Washington, DC and make in my virtual meeting. He then to Penny Skype in Indiana before Penny speakers in Chicago hairpinning. And if she answers your voice and video goes from Chicago to Indy to DC to Boston. Phew! Talk about some frequent flyer miles.
There is neither an expert in network communications take to realize that this additional overheard and proves to be sure-might promote a bad user experience. Now it may sound trivial to believe that my voice does not fit my video or my video freeze and stuttering can. But have you ever successfully seen a bad lip sync video? Or ever felt the frustration of a streaming video, the buffer? Pretty soon, your users do not use Skype for business and bypass the corporate IT ... again.
So what should we do? To answer this we basic physics and Archimedes turn. Namely:.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line
Do you want to [shortest] distance
Microsoft and Citrix connected Developers forces to ensure that Skype 4B is able to safely run in a XenApp session, but users expect the same experience when running in an unsafe, local instance. And what we came up with is called "Skype for Business Optimization Pack." I know the name says it all.
In the context of jointly developed Skype Optimization Pack, we remove these hairpinning effect with Penny and me to initiate our video call, as we normally would, hosted by the Skype server and with our Skype client on XenApp , Once the call is initiated, the Skype Optimization Pack creates a secure point connection between my microphone and speakers to show and pennies microphone and speaker
think that way about it. We remember all the old movies and television shows, if there was a telephone. People would initiate their call, ask the operator to connect them with "Penny". The operator would take over the phone lines and make a connection between their phone line and Penny and VOILA.
This is just how it is with Skype. The operator is the Skype server to initiate Skype call. The telephone lines are established virtual channel from me Penny directly.
It really is the best of both worlds. My Skype is hosted on XenApp, and thus the additional security chat logs, contacts and file transfers and session recordings is centrally stored in my data center. Audio and video are made efficient and optimized with direct access point to point. When the conversation is over, everything remains securely in the data center and Penny and I have a great experience users.
And speaking of my experience, if I can not have a new Skype for Business user adjust bounce between devices throughout my day. by running through XenApp Provisioning, I just need a taste of Skype on all my devices. Consistency is the key to productivity fumbling, not to find where a particular function is when Skype runs on my iPad.
Want further and delve into the weeds to geek out? Explore some of the Killer Content reproduced below:
- Citrix & Microsoft unveil v2 Optimization Pack
- Questions architects video
- Unified Communications with XenApp and XenDesktop
- delivering Skype for business on XenApp and XenDesktop users
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