Polycom 5.3 manual Scheduling Participants and Endpoints, Bridge Selection and Cascading

Polycom® CMA™ System Overview

Scheduling Participants and Endpoints

When you schedule conferences, you select the participants you wish to join the conference from your endpoint directory. Depending on your system configuration, your endpoint directory may be the enterprise LDAP directory or the Global Address Book. It may also include Guest Book entries.

For participants that have multiple endpoints registered with the Polycom CMA system, the system selects the participant’s default endpoint. You can change to another endpoint by selecting it from the Call Info list or by editing the participant.

You can schedule participants without endpoints into conferences. You cannot schedule endpoints without owners into conferences. The Polycom CMA system can be configured to allow you to overbook dial-in participants. In this case, dial-in participants can be scheduled to dial into multiple conferences during the same time period, but the system reserves resources for the participant for only the first scheduled conference. Dial-out participants cannot be scheduled into multiple conferences.

For the same reason, if you schedule participants with endpoints such as Polycom CMA Desktop, HDX, VVX, or VSX systems into conference as Dial In endpoints, the conference will require external MCU resources.

Bridge Selection and Cascading

When a conference is scheduled with one of the Polycom CMA system scheduling applications (Web Scheduler or Scheduling Plug-in for Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes) and the conference requires external MCU resources (such as a Polycom RMX or MGC system), then by default the Polycom CMA system automatically assigns the conference to a bridge. However, the system allows users with advanced scheduler permissions to select a bridge for their conferences. It also allows them to create multibridge, cascaded conferences.

Bridge Selection

When scheduling a conference, users with advanced scheduler permissions can select a bridge to host their conference by selecting the Single Bridge option. When they select this option, the system presents a list of bridges that have the capabilities and resources required to host their conference.

Because this bridge list depends on the template selection and conference settings, users should make their template selection and conference settings before selecting a bridge. Otherwise, they may select a bridge that cannot meet their conferencing requirements. In this case, the conference will fail to schedule.

Bridge Selection and Cascading Conferences

When scheduling a conference, users with advanced scheduler permissions can select the Multi Bridge option to create cascading conferences.

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