

One of the great things they really don’t point out is there is spare room on the appliance that you can stick your own applications on.

Making life easier for both the customer and the UC architect.Īs the unit comes in a few variants I’ll point out I’m playing with one based off the Mediant 800 SBA. Everything inside the grey box is handled by the CloudBond itself.
Skype for business on prem end of life manual#
To give you an idea, here’s an image from the manual showing how the CloudBond fits into your existing deployment assuming you have an existing AD infrastructure.

CAC, Call Via Work, Media Bypass? Check!.But, because this is a full on-prem Standard Edition deployment with a Real SQL instance it means you get the full Skype for Business suite, including CDR and QoE (I haven’t tested CQD on it yet) AudioCodes have a different product for that and I’m not going to cover that here right now. I need to point out it is NOT Cloud Connector Edition. Standard units do however come with a Mediant 800 gateway built in instead of the SBC. Higher end units also include things like a reverse pirate proxy (IIS ARR) and SBC. In case you didn’t see it in my last article, the AudioCodes CloudBond is a “Pre-built” Skype for Business On-Prem or Hybrid instance in a box that comes with its own Domain Controller, Front End and Edge server. Quick Shout out to David at AudioCodes and the guys at Auroz for letting me hold onto this demo unit so long. Well I’ve had some time to spend working with the unit as well as talking to AudioCodes about the solution in general. Hey, Remember that AudioCodes review I did waaaaay back in August then got distracted with PowerShell stuff?
