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Meet Me per Conferences and
Meeting Rooms
This chapter discusses Meet Me Conferences and Meeting Rooms. Meet Me
Conferences are conferences that allow undefined dial-in participants to
connect to them by dialing a predefined number.
Meeting Rooms are reserved conferences, based on Meet Me Conferences
without resource allocations. Meeting Room conferences are defined once
but can be activated many times, when required.
When using the Meet Me Per Conference option, there is no need to specify
the capabilities of each endpoint – they are automatically detected and are
assigned the conference parameters. Any participant who dials the
conference number can connect to the conference until all the MCU
resources are utilized or the maximum number of participants per
conference is reached. However, resources may be reserved for a specific
number of undefined participants. In such a case, additional undefined
participants may be allowed to join the conference if there are enough
resources available.
When the participant connects to the conference, all the channels with the
same Calling Line Identifier (CLI) number are identified as pertaining to the
same participant. In BONDING, each incoming call is identified as a new
participant, as one CLI number is used for all channels.