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Hosting skype meetings on small DSL lines
Hi Jesper,
one important concept to understand when it comes to meetings is, how the call flows look like:
- Meetings are alwazs hosted on O365 (for Skype for Business Online) respectively on your Conferencing Server (if you have SKype for Business Server on premises)
- Each participant has a basically a direct media connection to the service/server
- On the service/server all media is mixed and send out to all participants
- This means that no matter how many users you have or if these users are internal or external, since all communication is just between the individual user and service/server
- Only when it comes to video, the number of attendees will affect the bandwidth: Skype for Business is able to display up to five video streams plus a panorama video, so you would require more bandwidth for video in a meeting with 5 users, than in a meeting with 3 videos (well, actually it is more complicated as it also depends on the size of the video window)
If you need more information on network planning, I recommend to look at the Skype Operationsframework network readiness section: https://www.skypeoperationsframework.com/Offers/?pageState=NetworkReadiness
hth,
thomas
Hi Jesper,
one important concept to understand when it comes to meetings is, how the call flows look like:
- Meetings are alwazs hosted on O365 (for Skype for Business Online) respectively on your Conferencing Server (if you have SKype for Business Server on premises)
- Each participant has a basically a direct media connection to the service/server
- On the service/server all media is mixed and send out to all participants
- This means that no matter how many users you have or if these users are internal or external, since all communication is just between the individual user and service/server
- Only when it comes to video, the number of attendees will affect the bandwidth: Skype for Business is able to display up to five video streams plus a panorama video, so you would require more bandwidth for video in a meeting with 5 users, than in a meeting with 3 videos (well, actually it is more complicated as it also depends on the size of the video window)
If you need more information on network planning, I recommend to look at the Skype Operationsframework network readiness section: https://www.skypeoperationsframework.com/Offers/?pageState=NetworkReadiness
hth,
thomas