Chapter 4-Additional Conferencing Information
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•If the Content Settings selection is Hi Resolution Graphics.
—Only HD720/5 can be selected as the Content Resolution with 384 kbps allocated as
the conference Content Rate.
Only endpoints that connect at a Line Rate of 768 kbps that is required to support a
Content Rate of 384 kbps will receive content in the Content channel. Endpoints that
connect to the conference at a line rate lower than 768 kbps, will not receive
content.
•If the Content Settings selection is Live Video.
—HD720/5, HD720/30 or HD1080/15 can be selected as the Content Resolution with
768 kbps allocated the as the Conference Content Rate.
The higher Content Resolution should be selected according to the resolution
capabilities of the majority of the endpoints connecting to the conference.
Endpoints that cannot support the selected Content Resolution are considered Legacy
Endpoints and will not receive content.
Selecting a Customized Content Rate
Customized Content Rate functionality can be implemented when a Conference Content Rate,
that is automatically calculated by the Collaboration Server, may not be suitable in a
Cascaded Environment, where conference line rates may vary widely between the cascaded
conferences. For example, one conference may have a line rate of 2 Mbps, and the other a
line rate of is 512kbps.
Guidelines:
• Cascaded conferences may have different Conference Line Rates.
•The Customized Content Rate must be the same for all cascaded conferences.