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Making Conference Calls
Your Cisco Unified IP Phone allows you to talk simultaneously with multiple parties in a conference
call.

Using Conference Features

You can create a conference in various ways, depending on your needs and the features that are
available on your phone:
• Conference—Allows you to create a standard (ad hoc) conference by calling each participant. Use
the Confrn softkey. Conference is available on most phones.
• Join—Allows you to create a standard (ad hoc) conference by combining existing calls. Use the
Join softkey.
• cBarge—Allows you to create a standard (ad hoc) conference by adding yourself to a call on a
shared line. Use the cBarge softkey. cBarge is available only on phones that use shared lines.
Turn off DND Do one of the following:
• Choose Options > DND.
• Press , then select the DND radio button to turn
it off ( ).
Customize DND settings If your system administrator configured DND settings to appear
on the User Options page, follow these steps:
1. Log in to your User Options web pages. See Accessing Your
User Options Web Pages, page 82.
2. From the drop-down menu, choose User Options > Device.
3. Set the following options:
• Do Not Disturb—Set to enable/disable DND.
• DND Option—Choose either Call Reject (to turn
off all audible and visual notifications) or Ringer
Off (to turn off only the ringer).
• DND Incoming Call Alert (applies to either DND
option set)—Set the alert to beep only, flash only,
disable the alert, or choose “None” (to use the
“Alert” setting configured by your system
administrator).