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you will surely need (sooner or later) a good grasp of VOIP if you want to be able to deploy lync and troubleshoot it<br />
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This being said lync, as administration and deployment, needs much more knowledge than just voip. What I mean is that you can look at lync as a product and learn VOIP as you go.<br />
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It is just as if you are asking if to learn exchange you need to learn how smtp and email works. the answer is at the same time yes and no. whenever you know lync you will surely know quite a bit about VOIP and you could be a VOIP expert and have no idea about Lyhc
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you will surely need (sooner or later) a good grasp of VOIP if you want to be able to deploy lync and troubleshoot it

This being said lync, as administration and deployment, needs much more knowledge than just voip. What I mean is that you can look at lync as a product and learn VOIP as you go.

It is just as if you are asking if to learn exchange you need to learn how smtp and email works. the answer is at the same time yes and no. whenever you know lync you will surely know quite a bit about VOIP and you could be a VOIP expert and have no idea about Lyhc

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my answer to this question is:<br />
if you will deploy lync to works only in your network environment (even if you have multiple sites over WAN link) you do not need to have knowledge in voip and how it works<br />
if external access is made from outside your network environment you need to have some good understand of voip to implement enterprise voip.<br />
as conclusion, you need to learn voip but not to be expert on it neither to study it first before beginning lync 2010.
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my answer to this question is:
if you will deploy lync to works only in your network environment (even if you have multiple sites over WAN link) you do not need to have knowledge in voip and how it works
if external access is made from outside your network environment you need to have some good understand of voip to implement enterprise voip.
as conclusion, you need to learn voip but not to be expert on it neither to study it first before beginning lync 2010.

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Hi, i would like to learn Lync 2010 as im now working woth Exchange 2010.<br />
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My question is will i need to learn voip first before i learn Lync 2010<br />
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Thank you
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Hi, i would like to learn Lync 2010 as im now working woth Exchange 2010.

My question is will i need to learn voip first before i learn Lync 2010

Thank you

Lync 2010

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

IP telephony (Internet Protocol telephony) is a general term for the technologies that use the Internet Protocol's packet-switched connections to exchange voice, fax, and other forms of information that have traditionally been carried over the dedicated circuit-switched connections of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Using the Internet, calls travel as packets of data on shared lines, avoiding the tolls of the PSTN. The challenge in IP telephony is to deliver the voice, fax, or video packets in a dependable flow to the user.