Max Bandwidth?

[Guest]

Hello,

Does anyone know what the maximum video bandwidth requirements are for
Windows and Office Messenger? I would like to set up my office with video
conferencing but I want to make sure I have the maximum amount of bandwidth
reserved for it. Thanks!

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

Actually it's designed to accommodate whatever bandwidth is available from narrowband speeds
all the way to ~100Kbps (or similar, I don't actually know for a fact what Office
Communicator is doing).

Even the standard 10Mbps local network should be fine and unless your network has some high
bandwidth applications going on, I would expect you wouldn't even notice Messenger video
occurring.

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[psokolov]

1mbps will be enough for video+audio with very good resolution ( with
good codec of course , like wm9 ).

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

Office Communicator doesn't use WM9 has a codec. It uses the RTC APIs just like Messenger
does.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[psokolov]

Office Communicator doesn't use WM9 has a codec. It uses the RTC APIs just like Messenger does.

for video?

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

Yes. Windows Media 9 codecs aren't fast enough on today's hardware.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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