Polycom 1500/1800/2000/4000 manual Gathering Phase Duration

Defining AVC-Based Conference Profiles

●Content can be sent during the Gathering Phase. The content is displayed in the large video window of the participant’s layout while the Gathering slide is displayed in a smaller video window in the layout.

●Gathering is not supported in Cascading Conferences.

Gathering Phase Duration

The duration of the Gathering Phase can be customized by the administrator so that it is long enough to be viewed by most connected participants yet short enough so as not to over extend into the scheduled conferencing time.

The Gathering Phase duration is configured for the Collaboration Server, by the following System Flags in

system.cfg in the Setup > System Configuration:

●CONF_GATHERING_DURATION_SECONDS Range: 0 - 3600 seconds

Default: 180 seconds

The Gathering Phase duration of the conference is measured from the scheduled start time of the conference.

Example: If the value of the flag is set to 180, the Gathering slide is displayed for three minutes to all participants starting at the conference Start Time, and ending three minutes after the conference Start Time.

For participants who connect before Start Time, the Gathering slide is displayed from the time of connection until the end of the Gathering duration period.

●PARTY_GATHERING_DURATION_SECONDS Range: 0 - 3600 seconds

Default: 15 seconds

The value of this flag determines the duration of the display of the Gathering slide for participants that connect to the conference after the conference Start Time.

Participants connecting to the conference very close to of the end of the Gathering Phase (when there are fewer seconds left to the end of the Gathering Phase than specified by the value of the flag) have the Gathering slide displayed for the time specified by the value of the flag.

Example: If the value of the flag is set to 15, the Gathering Phase slide is displayed to the participant for 15 seconds.

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