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Setting Conferences for Telepresence Mode (AVC CP)

The following Telepresence Display Decision Matrix table below indicates how the speaker video will be displayed on the various participant endpoints, when the MCU is managing Telepresence Room Switch conference layouts.

For example, if the speaker’s endpoints has two screens and the participant’s endpoint only one, the participant’s display is divided into two video layout cells with each video layout cell showing the input of one of the speaker’s screens (endpoint).

If the participant endpoint has two screens, and the speaker endpoint only one, the speaker’s video will be displayed on one of the participant’s screens, while the second screen remains black.

Guidelines for Managing the Room Switch Telepresence Layouts by the MCU

●Only Room Switch layouts can be managed by the MCU. CP (Continuous Presence) layouts continue to be managed by the MLA.

●Only CP-AVC conferences are supported.

●Lync Clients (with CSS add-in) are supported. Microsoft Lync is not supported by Collaboration Server (RMX) 1800-0.

●SVC endpoints are not supported.

●It is recommended that the Speaker Change Threshold be set to 3 seconds.

●Telepresence endpoints are named using a text name followed by a number. For example, if an OTX Telepresence room is named Oak, the three endpoint names would be Oak1, Oak2, and Oak3.

●Lecture mode is not supported in Telepresence Room Switch conferences managed by the MCU. (This is because in Lecture mode, unlike Room Switch mode, the lecturer receives the CP layout of conference participants.)

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