Microsoft Lync provides an engaging collaboration platform that connects people from anywhere and virtually any device. The uniform consolidation of presence, instant messaging, voice and video functionality across diverse client devices greatly improves productivity, user experience and adoption of the solution in organizations of all sizes.
Starting with Live Communications Server (LCS), followed by Office Communications Server (OCS) and finally Lync, Microsoft has continued to set the precedent for synchronous communication platforms by regularly improving on an already mature and robust application. This has resulted in the latest versions of Lync (2010 and 2013) being the best the world has seen yet.
While previous iterations of the solution had a close coupling between front end servers and the back end SQL database, Lync now takes advantage of lazy writes, re-hydration and a loose coupling between front ends and the database so that service issues within SQL do not interrupt sign-in, presence and message delivery. Integration of Windows Fabric, Lync User Groups and brick model architecture also all work together so that instance and data center outages have less impact and can be recovered from more quickly.
In both Lync 2010 and 2013, there is a core requirement for load balancing and reverse proxy services. While DNS load balancing provides high availability and traffic distribution for certain pool services, HTTP traffic requires an external load balancer. These two methods can be combined across an environment for a highly performing and reliable infrastructure. Additionally, published HTTP services require a reverse proxy. KEMP LoadMasters fill both of these roles to help simplify Lync infrastructures.
When the new features of Lync are combined with an intelligent application-centric load balancer the deployment is far more scalable than ever before. KEMP's entire line of LoadMaster load balancers are optimized for Lync 2010 and 2013. Included deployment guides and templates help to make the deployment or migration of Lync infrastructures seamless. To find out more about load balancing specific Microsoft Lync versions, click on the appropriate link below: