Polycom DOC2231A manual About Conferences, On-Demand Reservation-less Conferencing

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About Conferences

Different conference types are available according to their initiation modes: reservationless conferences and scheduled conferences.

On-Demand (Reservation-less) Conferencing

Reservation-less conferencing enables participants to immediately start and connect to an On Going Conference from their endpoint, with no advanced scheduling. The MGC Manager offers two methods for Reservation-less conferencing:

•Ad Hoc Conferencing

•Meeting Rooms

Ad Hoc Conferencing

In Ad Hoc conferencing, participants connect to an Ad Hoc-enabled Entry Queue. An Entry Queue is a special routing lobby to which one or several dial-in numbers are assigned. The participants are prompted for the destination conference Numeric ID. If no conference with a matching Numeric ID is running, but the participant is authorized to create a conference, the system creates a new On Going Conference. The new conference is created according to the conference parameters defined in a Profile assigned to the Entry Queue. All other participants connect directly to the newly created conference. With this method, only the conference Profile is created once and is used repeatedly to create numerous conferences.

This conferencing method is often used to globally enable all employees in an organization to start On Going Conferences from their endpoints, without having to define the conference parameters for each employee and for each conference.

When authentication with external database application is configured for the Entry Queue and for the conference, the MCU verifies with the external

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