Web Conferencing Edge Service

The Web Conferencing Edge Service enables remote users to participate in web conferences with internal users or other remote workers. The Web Conferencing Edge Service enables remote users to participate in collaboration sessions that involve whiteboards and polls. Any user who connects to the Web Conferencing Edge Service must authenticate with the Access Edge Service first.

Organizations can also elect to allow anonymous or unauthenticated users to join web conferences with their own users. Web conferencing uses Microsoft’s Proprietary Shared Object Model (PSOM) protocol to facilitate the meetings and data. Like the Access Edge traffic, all Web Conferencing Edge traffic is conducted over HTTPS port 443, so it is secure and resilient to proxy servers. For more information on Web Conferencing functionality, see Chapter 19, “Lync Native Video and Data Conferencing.”