34 Product description
When the conference time expires, the ICB card issues the final warning to the conferees. The ICB sends a release message to the Meridian system for all associated ICB ports. These ports become available for the next planned conference. If there is no other scheduled conference, they become floating ports which the system does not reserve for any conference. Floating ports are available to expand conferences in progress.
Conferees can exit a conference at any time. The ICB detects when a conferee exits the conference. If enabled, the ICB announces the conferee’s name. When one conferee is on the conference, the system issues an announcement that only one conferee is present, followed by 60 seconds of music. The system repeats this announcement and the music, until at least one more conferee joins in, or the ICB terminates the conference at the scheduled end time, or if the conferee or chairperson issues the stop music command (*19).
Note: A conference can begin and end two minutes before the defined time. This feature allows the system to close all terminating conferences two minutes earlier and start all scheduled conferences immediately after closing the terminating conferences. This feature is important when terminating and starting conferences use some of the same DNs.
