This article gives you a brief walkthrough of how to protect your network from being overloaded by voice and video traffic using call admission control in Microsoft Lync Server 2010.

Author: Rui Maximo with Subbu Chandrasekaran and Thomas Binder

Publication date: June 2010

Product version: Microsoft Lync Server 2010

One of the big concerns that IT often raises when they consider deploying VoIP and video conferencing is whether their IP network is prepared to sustain the network load imposed by this media traffic. VoIP and video conferencing require high bandwidth and low latency to offer a good end-user experience. The concern is legitimate. While upgrading existing IP networks may be the ideal solution, the reality of this option is likely to be cost prohibitive and often occurs over a long period of time. In the interim, what other options are available?

Call admission control provides a way to prevent degradation of quality by limiting the number of concurrent calls over limited bandwidth links such as wide area networks (WAN).

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