Hi Peter, We are fully S4B softclient after migrating from a Cisco hard phone solution last year. Our backend are Cisco 5520 and older 5508 WLCs. We do AVC to prioritise S4B into our wired medianet QoS. Frankly the experience is varied on wireless and can be good, or include periods of one way conversations. We advise our staff to use wired connections for S4B calls (rock solid), with wireless being for convenience, making analogies to the mobile network when it was young. For all other traffic we don't make any distinction as we have an 'anywhere' focus to the university.
I don't think we've seen the aforementioned load issues with AVC. Perhaps we haven't been as loaded as we have WLC clusters per campus rather than concentrating them in datacentres. I think that will change soon. We are however looking at how to improve the experience. Interestingly mobiles tend to cope better in our experience then desktops, possibly as they do less both in CPU and also in network traffic. Our experience with support has been varied. It appears whereas Cisco TAC provided a focussed enterprise support model, Microsoft seems to be much more home consumer orientated. Regards David -----Original Message----- From: Peter P Morrissey [mailto:ppmor...@syr.edu] Sent: Saturday, 18 March 2017 1:31 AM Subject: Re: Skype For Business With Cisco WLAN ? We have suffered under AVC. I would also add that we use S4B quite a bit and it always seems to work very well without it. In fact, we have used it for video conferences that span the Atlantic Ocean and it works very well. I'm not an expert on this, but my suspicion is that the codec used for S4B adds some resilience. Would be curious to hear about others' experiences with Microsoft, Cisco and other VoIP vendors in this area as we will be moving into that direction in the near future. We have found QOS in general to be quite complex to implement and support on all the different Cisco platforms we have requiring I believe 4 different schemes for just the wired platforms and have generally found it better to avoid QOS and over provision. Pete Morrissey -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Curtis K. Larsen Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:20 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Skype For Business With Cisco WLAN ? Hi All, Wondering if any have successfully optimized their Cisco WLAN for Skype for Business and are willing to share tips on or off list. I found this guide http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/technotes/8-1/Lync_SDN/b_Lync-Client-Server-in-Cisco-Wireless-LAN.html but was hoping for a shortcut haha. Thanks, Curtis ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. Important Notice: The contents of this email are intended solely for the named addressee and are confidential; any unauthorised use, reproduction or storage of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and any attachments immediately and advise the sender by return email or telephone. Deakin University does not warrant that this email and any attachments are error or virus free. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
