Lucent Technologies 8.2

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2

Administrator’s Guide

555-233-506 Issue 1

April 2000

Managing multimedia calling

271Enhanced Mode MM complex

- multiple call appearance operation

With an Enhanced mode complex all calls to or from the complex are controlled

via the voice station. Each voice or multimedia call has its own call appearance

which may be selected without regard for the natu re of the call using the specific

call appearance. This allows a multifunction station to control multiple voice or

multimedia calls in exactly the same way they would c ontrol multiple voice calls.

As an example, a user may originate a simple voice call on the first call

appearance. A multimedia call may then arrive on the second call appearanc e. The

user activates HOLD on the first call appearance and selects the second call

appearance to answer the multimedia call. The user may then activate HOLD on

the second call appearance and reselect the first call appearance or select a third

call appearance and originate another call.

- creating a multi-party video conference

An Enhanced multimedia complex can create a spontaneous video conference in

the same way that a spontaneous voice conference is created. Giv en an a cti v e c all,

the user activates the CONFERENCE button. This puts the current call on HOLD

and activates a new call appearance. The user makes a multimedia call according

to the instructions for originating a multime dia call and then selects

CONFERENCE to combine or merge the two call appearances. This results in a

3-way conference.

If all three parties are video equipped, then a 3-way video conference results.

Conference members see the current speaker on video. The current speaker sees

the last speaker on video. If one of the parties is not video equipped, then a 3- wa y

audio conference exists and the two video equipped parties hav e 2- way vide o. The

CONFERENCE action may be repeated until 6 parties have been conferenced

together. The 6 parties may be any mix of voice or video, local or remote parties.

The following steps create a multi-party voice/video conference:

1. Enhanced mode complex station A originates a multimedia call to, or

receives a multimedia call from, party B. Station A and pa rty B have 2-way

voice and video.

2. Station A, activates CONFERENCE.

3. Station A originates a multimedia call (i.e. uses the mm-call

button/FAC/etc.) and dials the party to be added, Enhanced multimedia

complex C.

4. Party C, answers the call from station A.

5. Station A selects CONFERENCE to complete the 3-way conference.

Parties A,B and C will be in a 3-way voice/video conference.