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Dickey
Storella
Heyn

Time and Lync phone High availability in Lync
money—
deployments: Lync 2010 introduced a backup registrar By Chris Heyn, General
Keeping Lync
optimized
for deployment resilience. When a user’s Manager of Kemp Technologies Italy
or qualified?
home pool became unavailable it allowed W
installations simple
the client to automatically register with a ith the release of Microsoft Lync saves both
pre-defined backup. This maintained basic It’s not an either/or proposition 2013 customers are interested
voice availability but resulted in loss of in what’s new. While it doesn’t
capabilities such as conferencing and con- totally re-invent the proverbial wheel com- pared to its predecessor, it does add many y Mike Storella
By Frederic Dickey, Vice President rofessional Services and Product
BEP
tact list.
enhancements. Here are a few.
nterprises of all sizes are adopt- Management, Sangoma Technologies
Multiple mediation servers connecting There has been significant role con- ing Microsoft Lync for their unified F
to the same PSTN gateway or SIP trunk solidation. Monitoring and Archiving have communications and presence capa- or system integrators and resell-
required redundant DNS A records pointing been deprecated and Front End server now bilities. It has matured to the point where ers of Microsoft Lync and other
to the same IP to fool the Topology Builder.
communicates directly with the monitoring many are adding the voice application to telecommunications solutions, the installation and configuration time
See HEYN, page 2
and archiving databases.
their Lync networks.
See STORELLA, page 4
See DICKEY, page 6

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