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Media Flow in Skype for Business Hybrid
User 1 is homed online and creates a meeting and invites 2 meeting room resources (Polycom Trio's 8800 with Polycom Visual+ boxes) with SfB capabilities. The Polycom SfB accounts are homed on-premise...
Hi Craig,
i would say this is expected. Since the hybrid setup you have is a federation between server and online. Clients from the sfb server side would always use the media route (via edge) to reach the other party. The only case where the clients on SfB server would directly connect to the remote edge is if there weren’t a federation in place. Local edge pools would also allow you to not traverse the mpls and connect via local edge/internet.
i would say this is expected. Since the hybrid setup you have is a federation between server and online. Clients from the sfb server side would always use the media route (via edge) to reach the other party. The only case where the clients on SfB server would directly connect to the remote edge is if there weren’t a federation in place. Local edge pools would also allow you to not traverse the mpls and connect via local edge/internet.
Will the media flow from the on-prem Edge to the SfB Online edge servers if all of the Polycom are behind the on-prem edge servers still? Seems like not the best route to take, so me have to have a think about putting an edge server, as a test in one of our branch sites. We were told by a consultancy company that the media would breakout via the local internet breakout.
We also have HDX offsetting for our VDI environment which I now think I am going to test to see if this traverses the MPLS or breaks out locally.
The on-premises clients can use the local breakout if they are homed in the cloud.
