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Lync Edge and RevProxy behind Link Controller

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Normally, if a customer has high available Internet connections and the Providers are supporting a proper load balancing, they will make use of BGP4 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol ) Border Gateway Protocol. If this is the case, you have a straight forward setup for Lync Edge Server and RevProxy. But what's happen if BGP is not available? There is only one solution, you need to establish the load balancing by yourself. How we are doing this is by simple introducing a Link Controller. Now we are able to provide a high available and failover solution for outgoing Internet Traffic . But incoming traffic is still not load balanced. How should we do this? Ok, you need to play with external DNS entries! What does this mean? A DNS entry can have multiple A Record, e.g. we are using for Lync DNS based Load Balancing. Within the Round Robin procedure, e.g. you have two DNS A Records, every second DNS query the other IP Address will be provided. meet.contoso.c...