Polycom 8 manual Conference Types

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Conference Types

The MGC WebCommander provides various methods to set up and schedule conferences. The following Scheduling Methods are available:

•New Meeting/On Going Conferences

•Reservation Templates

•On demand conferences - Meeting Rooms and Ad-hoc enabled Entry Queues

The Ad Hoc enabled Entry Queue can only be defined in the MGC Manager application but can be used with the WebCommander application.

After the scheduling method is determined, you select the conference type. The following conference types are available:

•Standard

•Meeting Room

•Operator Conference

When defining the conference you have to decide how the participants will connect to the conference: whether they will dial into the conference or the conferencing system (MCU) dials out to the participant. For dial-in connections, you have to define if one dial-in number is used for all dial-in connections (Entry Queue) or a different dial-in number is assigned to each conference or each participant.

Once the participant is connected to the conferencing system (MCU) you define the conference access method (via an Entry Queue, conference IVR Queue, or directly) and the conferencing service level, i.e. operator attended or unattended conferencing.

•For each conference, you define the media used in the conference (audio Only or video and audio), the parameters which determine the quality of the conference audio or video and audio, and the operations that can be performed during the On Going conference.

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