The Microsoft Lync Server unified communications platform helps enterprise users manage real-time communications, including IM, VoIP, and audio and video web conferencing.


The F5 Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Lync Server maximizes security, availability, reliability, and speed for your unified communications deployment. F5 and Microsoft work closely to ensure successful interoperability and top performance for your environment, with a well-documented, prescriptive solution that also reduces deployment, management, and administration costs.

Achieve high availability

F5 ensures high service availability for Lync Server. Even if one or more Lync servers fail, F5 intelligent load balancing redistributes the workload between remaining servers.

Improve performance

The F5 solution offloads CPU-intensive tasks, such as SSL processing and compression, from your Lync servers to F5 devices. F5 also provides TCP connection optimizations that improve the efficiency and speed of your application traffic.

Scale quickly and efficiently

It’s easy to scale your Lync Server deployment with F5. Simply add a new server to the network and add the IP address to the F5 load balancing pool, and traffic goes immediately to the newly provisioned node.

Ensure a responsive and resilient environment

F5 actively monitors the health and responsiveness of your Lync Server environment to ensure that users are connected to the most available, appropriate server. F5 also provides fault tolerance by monitoring site-level application availability and transparently redirecting users to another site in the event of a site-level outage.

Increase management efficiency

F5 iApps Templates for Lync Server and step-by-step configuration guidance can help you reduce deployment cycles by one third. And because the F5 solution provides a central point of control for Lync in the data center, it reduces management effort overall.


Resources for Microsoft Lync Server


Application Guides | What F5 does for specific apps

Deployment Guides | Step-by-step configuration with your apps

White Papers | Real-world context for F5 technologies

Solution Overviews | How F5 optimizes partner technologies

Use Cases | Map F5 solutions to your goals

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Where does F5 fit in with Lync?

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“F5’s close integration with Microsoft’s UC platform played heavily into our decision… it gives us that crucial reliability we need for our Office Communications Server and Lync Server 2010 deployments.”


–Kevin Rice, Global Network Architect, A.T. Kearney

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Big boost for Microsoft OCS and Outlook

“With F5 BIG-IP LTM we were able to offload our OCS and Outlook traffic from the Microsoft ISA servers, dramatically improving performance.”

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