Chapter 7 - Conference Types
For example, in a conference defined with a line rate of 768 Kbps, a participant with a line rate of 128 Kbps connects as Secondary (audio only) Participants attempting to connect at rates below the set minimum threshold are connected as Secondary in order to maintain the video quality of the conference. Table
Table
Defined Conference | Minimum Participant Line Rate Necessary for Video |
Line Rate (in Kbps) | Connection (in Kbps) |
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128Participants will connect with video if a video session
can be established.
256 | 128 |
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384 | 128 |
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512 | 256 |
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768 | 384 |
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1920 | 768 |
Conference On Port setting is suitable for large Continuous Presence conferences (up to 128 participants for a single video card) for which you do not have enough available video resources or if several Continuous Presence conferences are running on the MCU at the same time and you do not have enough video resources to run all of them simultaneously.
•Conference On Port is limited to 128 participants with a single video card.
•Conference On Port is available only with the Video+ card.
•In a Conference on Port, the Lecture Show function is disabled.
Lecture Mode
Lecture Mode enables automatic switching between the conference participants in the speaker window, allowing the conference speaker to see all the other conference participants (including Continuous Presence layout) while s/he is speaking. The lecturer is the only one seen by all the other participants throughout the conference, in full screen.