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What's the concern? Realtime optimization isn't like WAN optimization where the idea is to dedupe/compress/etc and shrink the amount of data, but rather to ensure that data is taking the optimal path by breaking it out at the client as well as letting the client take the CPU hit from the webcam instead of the VDA.

Based on Teams diagram, maybe Skype works differently? It looks like all audio/video traffics are from the HDX media engine on the user device to the MS Cloud Teams or Skype. Initially I thought we didn't have much Skype/Teams traffic going on through the ICA virtual channel but it is. My concern is about bandwidth usage consumption and also understand exactly how the technology works to support and implement it effectively.

OK, so you're seeing a bunch of traffic over ICA instead of from the client device to MS directly?

Yes correct

Ahhh, gotcha, I didn't look too closely and therefore didn't notice that was a graph from ADM. That would indeed suggest that it's not being broken out.

Ok so something is not working as it is supposed to, it's great! You would expect to work the way I describe it.

Would be worth going through the FAQs for whatever RTOP version you're running to make sure you aren't hitting any of them. https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/hdx-optimization/current-release/overview.html

Ok super thanks I'll check it out!

Ahhh, that could very well be the case. I'm primarily on the networking side so I haven't messed with it much directly, but I know there's a few different modes depending on call versus meeting, sharing content, etc.

OKi yes that's probably the explanation, I'll confirm with extra tests, thanks Mike 😀