Skype for Business

New Updates! Cisco Jabber & Microsoft Skype for Business Enhancements for Wyse ThinOS

chrismessier Blog, Citrix, Microsoft, VMware Horizon, Wyse ThinOS , , , ,

Cisco Jabber & Microsoft Skype for Business, and other unified communications solutions, are some of the solutions often requested in virtual desktop deployments. Citrix & VMware have both made some key advancements on the server side, i.e. Citrix HDX RealTime Optimization Pack (RTME) & VMware Horizon Virtualization Pack for Skype for Business.

Most of the client side solutions to ‘offload’ some of this processing has been focused on using Windows, or Windows Embedded, based endpoints. The request of many customers is to simplify & secure the endpoint as much as possible, which can lead to using a non-Windows based endpoint and running Windows 10/7 in the data center.

Dell Wyse just released Wyse ThinOS 8.6 which includes support for Cisco Jabber Softphone for VDI for Citrix and Skype for Business on VMware Horizon.

You can see more on these announcements here and some technical details in the Wyse ThinOS 8.6 release notes here.

Enjoy!

@chris_messier ~~> Subscribe to blog to get latest updates <~~

Citrix and Skype for Business on Wyse ThinOS

chrismessier Blog, Citrix, Wyse ThinOS , ,

One of the great new features in the release of Skype for Business on Citrix XenDesktop is the ability to use a non-Windows, Wyse ThinOS, endpoint as the client device to support new Skype features. Previously, you were limited to using a Windows endpoint running a full Windows PC or Windows Embedded thin client.

More importantly, your able to leverage the power of the Citrix Real Time Media Engine (RTME) which is embedded in the Wyse ThinOS for audio/video offload. This allows the client to offload rendering from the server VM onto the client leveraging the client CPU/memory to process audio/video. This freeing of VM resources allow greater server/desktop density and better performance as local client resources are also being used.

The key benefit of leveraging the RTME support is you eliminate the traditional VDI hair-pinning of the unified communications audio/video traffic which would route all the audio/video traffic through the virtual machines as illustrated below.

This is very well illustrated in below video.

Site feedback? chris@vditoolbox.com | Twitter | LinkedIn