Making Conference Calls

Your Cisco Unified IP Phone allows you to join three or more people into one telephone conversation, creating 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 or the Conference button. Conference is available on most phones.

Join—Allows you to create a standard (ad hoc) conference by combining existing calls. Use the Join softkey.

Meet-Me—Allows you to create or join a conference by calling a conference number. Use the MeetMe softkey or button.

Using Conference

Conference allows you to call each participant. Conference is available on most phones.

If you want to...

Then...

 

 

Create a conference by calling

1. From a connected call, press Confrn or Conference. (You may

participants

 

need to press the more softkey to see Confrn.)

 

2.

Enter the participant’s phone number.

 

3.

Wait for the call to connect.

 

4.

Press Confrn or Conference again to add the participant to your

 

 

call.

 

5.

Repeat to add additional participants.

 

 

Add new participants to an

Repeat the steps listed above.

existing conference

Your system administrator determines whether non-initiators of a

 

 

conference can add or remove participants.

 

 

See a list of participants or

Press ConfList or Conference List. (You may need to press the more

remove participants

softkey first.) See Viewing or Removing Conference Participants,

 

page 38.

 

 

 

Tips

If you frequently join more than two parties into a single conference, you might find it useful to first select the calls that you want to join, then press Join to complete the action.

When Join completes, caller ID changes to “Conference.”

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