Cisco Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway
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Lync uses TLS by default
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TCP prevents the use of encryption
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TCP may not work for Lync Server environments that include hardware load balancers (HLBs) and / or Lync
Director
Director
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A static route using TCP must go to the destination IP address. So, with TCP you cannot get redundancy
from a clustered Gateway VCS, which you can when you configure a TLS static route to the cluster's FQDN
from a clustered Gateway VCS, which you can when you configure a TLS static route to the cluster's FQDN
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If the Gateway is a cluster, you must configure the master peer and allow the configuration to be replicated to
the other peers automatically. When you see the
the other peers automatically. When you see the
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in the web interface, it indicates that a field must be
completed on each peer.
Deployment Components
We are integrating your Microsoft
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Lync environment with your video network to provide video calling between Lync
and your VCS-registered endpoints, desktop sharing from Lync, and presence sharing from the video endpoints.
Figure 1 Topology used in this deployment guide
What's in the diagram?
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Cisco VCS and Microsoft Lync Deployment Guide
Introduction