Chapter 9-Conference and Participant Monitoring
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Table 9-9 Participant Properties - Channel Status Parameters
Field Description
Channels Used When checked, indicates the channel type used by
the participant to connect to the conference:
Incoming channels are endpoint to MCU, Outgoing
channels are from MCU to endpoint.
Channels:
•H.225/Signaling - The call-signaling channel.
•H.245/SDP - The Control channel.
•Audio in - Incoming audio channel
•Audio out - Outgoing audio channel
•Video in - Incoming video channel
•Video out - Outgoing video channel
•Content in - H.239/People+Content conferences
•Content out - H.239/People+Content
conferences
•FECC in - The incoming FECC channel is open.
•FECC out - The outgoing FECC channel is open.
Columns:
•Faulty – A red exclamation point indicates a
faulty channel condition. This is a real-time
indication; when resolved the indication
disappears. An exclamation point indicates that
further investigation may be required using
additional parameters displayed in the
Advanced Channel Status tab.
•Bit Rate – The actual transfer rate for the
channel.
•Packet Loss – The accumulated count of all
packets that are missing according to the RTCP
report since the channel was opened. This field
is relevant only during the connection stage and
does not display faulty indications.
•Fraction Loss (Peak) – The ratio between the
number of lost packets and the total number of
transmitted packets since the last RTCP report.
Peak (in parentheses) indicates the highest
ratio recorded since the channel was opened.