I have one medium client , about 75 users in corporate, 25 in PA, 25 in UK, and another 30 or so travelling constantly. We tried a few different products for group meetings, and ended up with Skype business (which just recently came out). It does work well, but the bandwidth requirements are high. If I recall it was 1mb per user per conference, so a 10 user vid conference wanted 10mbs. This is fine for corp who has a 10/100 fiber, and actually okay for most of the travelling people with good 4g or at their homes on dsl/cable, but the other 2 offices UK and PA who only have 3MB connections made it hard to get them to participate in any of the larger video conferencing.
From: Tobie Fysh [mailto:tobie.f...@freebridge.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Using Skype in a corporate environment As Microsoft have purchased Skype and are going to be integrating it with their product line I think you'll be better looking at Lync IMHO.. http://lync.microsoft.com Regards Tobie From: pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com [mailto:pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com] Sent: 24 November 2011 11:58 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Using Skype in a corporate environment Hi all Our director is very interested in introducing Skype in certain departments since most of our clients/suppliers use Skype already. However I am somewhat concerned about the following issues: 1. Lack of administration facilities such as locking down/disabling certain Skype functions. I know that Windows 2008 group policy administrative templates exist but read somewhere that these might not be compatible with future newer versions of Skype. In fact Skype no longer supplies such templates. 2. Network bandwidth hogging. How serious an issue is this? Each workstation is connected via a 100 MB link to our core switch. Our Internet broadband link speed is 4 Mbps for download and upload connections. 3. Security issues. How serious are these? Has anyone deployed and using Skype within a corporate environment? Any issues encountered? Things to watch out for? Thanks Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin _____ This message has been scanned by MimeCast on behalf of Freebridge Community Housing and found to be free of viruses and not SPAM. If you have any concerns about the message contents please contact the ICT ServiceDesk. _____ <http://www.freebridge.org.uk> Freebridge Community Housing Logo <http://twitter.com/Freebridge> twitter.com/Freebridge <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kings-Lynn-United-Kingdom/Freebridge-Communit y-Housing/192690183387?v=box_3> Freebridge on Facebook This e-mail (including any attachments), is confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee(s). It may contain information covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Do not copy, use or disclose this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. Freebridge Community Housing Ltd is a Charitable Industrial and Provident Society - Reg No IP29744R Registered with the Housing Corporation - No L4463. VAT Registration Number 860762121 Freebridge Community Housing, Juniper House, Austin Street, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1DZ _____ This email message has been scanned for viruses by Mimecast. Mimecast delivers a complete managed email solution from a single web based platform. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com _____ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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