Lync Server Cookbook

Network readiness – introduction

We briefly introduced the importance of assessing the underlying network to ensure it is capable of handling real-time traffic for UC communications. In this recipe, we will present a practical example of network readiness assessment.

Getting ready

To prepare for the assessment, we need the following two main items:

• The Lync 2010 and 2013 Bandwidth Calculator (available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19011). This tool is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet; it was purposely built to calculate bandwidth requirements based on estimated usage, scenarios, and network parameters.
• A network assessment with the following information:
  • A list of sites where Lync endpoints will be located.
  • A count of Lync ...