Frequently Asked Questions
The Cisco Meeting Server provides support for transmission of RDP (Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol). This improves the experience for Skype for Business and Lync client users when they participate in the same calls and conferences as users of other systems.
When a non-Lync client user, for example a Cisco Meeting App user or SIP endpoint user, shares an application, or their desktop, with Lync client users, the Call Bridge encodes the content as RDP and sends the content to the Lync client in a separate RDP channel from the H.264 video stream. This results in both the content and video being displayed in separate areas on the Lync client.
Note: Sharing from non-Lync clients is supported to both Lync clients and to Lync conferences.
The figure below shows a call from a non-Lync client sharing to multiple Lync clients.
From Meeting Server version 2.7, there are improvements in content sharing from Microsoft Lync/Skype for Business/Office365 clients to clients connected to a Meeting Server. The improvement requires the Skype client to support the Graphics Pipeline Extension. Depending upon the content shared, a 4x faster initial content share or 4x improvement in frame rate may be observed; this performance improvement results from reduced bandwidth per frame when the Graphics Pipeline Extension is supported by the Skype client. The latest Window's Skype client supports the Graphics Pipeline Extension, where as the Mac iOS Skype clients do not.
- Last update:
- 25-Jun-2020
- FAQ ID:
- 1253