Network Region Links

Network region links in Lync Server represent a bandwidth constraint between two network regions or central sites. Because network regions are generally geographically large, these links apply to a number of sites when communicating across regions. For example, a region link might be defined between North America and Europe for an organization. Region links must be created between two regions and might have a bandwidth policy profile associated. The bandwidth policy can be an existing policy or an administrator can create a new policy specifically for the region link.

To create a new network region link, use the following steps:

1. Open the Lync Server 2010 Control Panel.

2. Click Network Configuration.

3. Click Region Link.

4. Click the New button.

5. Enter a Name for the link.

6. Choose a Network region #1 from the selection menu.

7. Choose a Network region #2 from the selection menu.

8. Choose a Bandwidth policy.

9. Click Commit.

Alternatively, to use the Lync Server Management Shell to create a network region link, use the following:

New-CSNetworkRegionLink –Identity <Region Link Name> -NetworkRegionID1
<Region 1 ID> -NetworkRegionID2 <Region 2 ID> -BWPolicyProfileID <Bandwidth
policy profile ID>