Polycom DOC2232A manual On-demand Conferences Reservationless Conferencing, Ad Hoc Conferencing

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Conference Types

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

On-demand Conferences (Reservationless Conferencing)

Reservationless conferencing enables you to immediately start and connect to On Going conferences from your 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, the participant connects to an Ad Hoc-enabled Entry Queue. An Entry Queue is a special routing lobby to which one or more dial-in numbers are assigned. The participant is prompted for the destination conference Numeric ID. If no conference with a matching Numeric ID is running, the system creates a new On Going conference, provided the participant has the permission to do so. The new conference is created according to the conference parameters defined in a Profile assigned to the Entry Queue. In this method, the conference Profile is created only 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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