For the purposes of Lync the applicable solutions covered in this article are (a) leveraging Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) identification of specific traffic types and (b) defining separate custom port ranges for the various media payloads in Lync. The term Quality of Service (QoS) can refer to a variety of technical approaches for prioritizing specific traffic over an IP network. Updating QoS for Lync Phone Edition devices.Enabling QoS on Lync Qualified IP Phones.Designing and configuring a network QoS plan.Prioritization of both signaling and media communications will be covered by addressing the following topics:
This article covers various aspects of configuring a complete Quality of Service (QoS) design in a Lync environment which utilizes various models of IP handsets for Lync.
