Polycom 3725-77601-001H manual Enable Cascading Conferences on Polycom MCUs

Polycom CMA System Operations Guide

3Select the MCU of interest and click Edit .

4Complete the Identification, Addresses, Capabilities, MCU Services, MCU Resources, and MCU Cascading sections of the Edit Device dialog box. (For more information, see “View Device Details” on page 227.) At a minimum, assign the MCU a System Name.

5Click Update.

Enable Cascading Conferences on Polycom MCUs

To enable multi-bridge conferences, you must complete the following steps:

1Configure entry queues on the participating MCUs. Only bridges with entry queues are displayed in the list of available bridges to schedule on the people-to-bridge or bridge-to-bridge scheduling page.

To configure cascading using a Polycom RMX MCU, you must create two cascading entry queues—one for which the Master option on the Cascade menu is selected and one for which the Slave option on the Cascade menu is selected. Also, enable the Use Entry Queue selection.

The primary purpose for the Master and Slave designation is to determine which Polycom RMX MCU is responsible for managing People + Content for the conference.

2Configure MCU Cascading for each MCU on the CMA system by editing each MCU and referencing the appropriate entry queue ID and ISDN numbers.

Some notes about cascading MCUs:

•A Polycom RMX 1000 MCU cannot be used for cascading.

•All devices (MCUs and endpoints) in a cascaded conference must be registered to the same CMA system gatekeeper.

•All systems (the CMA system, MCUs, and endpoints) must be time synchronized.

•Since ISDN cascade links on Polycom RMX MCUs are not supported, do not select Enable ISDN/PSTN Access. The CMA system only supports cascaded IP links on Polycom RMX MCUs. It does not support cascaded ISDN links on Polycom RMX MCUs.

•Polycom RMX systems enforce a 1x1 layout for the cascaded link between bridges, so only one participant on each bridge is displayed at any time. To change this on a Polycom RMX system, go to Setup > System Configuration and on the MCMS_PARAMETERS_USER page add a new flag called FORCE_1X1_LAYOUT_ON_CASCADED_LINK_CONNECTION with a Value of NO.

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