Polycom 3725-76302-001LI manual Conference Templates List, Column Description

Conference Templates Conference Manager Configuration

3On the Polycom DMA system, enable cascading in some or all of your conference templates.

If you don’t have a Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager or CMA system, you must define your site topology in the Polycom DMA system instead of importing it. See “Site Topology” on page 283.

Note

Cascading always uses a hub-and-spoke configuration so that each cascaded MCU is only one link away from the “hub” MCU, which hosts the conference. To host the conference, the system chooses the same MCU that it would have chosen in the absence of cascading. See “MCU Pool Orders” on page 156.

Once a conference with cascading enabled has started (the “hub” MCU has been chosen), the Polycom DMA system uses the site topology information to route additional callers to the nearest eligible MCU (based on pools and pool orders):

•If the caller is in a site that contains one or more MCUs, the system selects an MCU in that site that has available capacity.

•If the caller is in a site that doesn’t contain MCUs, the system looks for MCUs in directly-connected sites (that is, sites that have a network path to the caller’s site without going through a cloud) and selects one that has available capacity.

If the selected MCU is new to the conference, the DMA system creates the cascade link to the “hub” MCU hosting the conference.

See also:

“Conference Templates” on page 195 “Two Types of Templates” on page 195 “Template Priority” on page 197

“About Conference IVR Services” on page 197 “Conference Templates Procedures” on page 220

Conference Templates List

The following table describes the fields in the Conference Templates list.

Table 8-2Information in the Conference Templates list

	Column	Description
	Priority	The priority ranking of the template.
	Name	The name of the template.
	Description	A description of the template.
Polycom, Inc.		199