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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 263.
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 page179
“Two Types of Templates” on page 179
“Template Priority” on page 181
“About Conference IVR Services” on page 181
“Conference Templates Procedures” on page202
Conference Templates List The following table describes the fields in the Conference Templates list.
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 141.
Table 8-2 Information 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.