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Chapter 4 - Setting Up Conferences
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About Conferences
MGC Manager provides several methods to set up and schedule different
kinds of conferences to suit many different needs. The following scheduling
methods are available:
• On Going Conferences - for setting up conferences that start
immediately.
• Reservations - for scheduled and recurrent conferencing.
• On-demand Conferences - Meeting Rooms and Ad-hoc enabled Entry
Queues for unscheduled or on-demand conferencing.
Each method is represented in the MCU tree by an appropriate entry or icon.
When you define a conference, you select the appropriate conference type.
The following conference types are available:
• Standard - a scheduled On Going Conference or Reservation that runs
once and is deleted from the system once it ends.
• Meeting Room - a conference that is defined once and used many times
for unscheduled or on-demand conferencing.
• Operator Conference - a conference managed by a designated operator
and used to assist participants.
For each conference you specify whether participants connect to the
conferencing system by dialing in to the conference or by having the
conferencing system (MCU) dial out to the participant. For dial-in
connections, you have to define whether a single dial-in number will be used
for all dial-in connections or a different dial-in number will be assigned to
each conference or each participant.
In addition to the dialing method, you must define whether the conference is
accessed by means of an Entry Queue, a conference Interactive Voice
Response (IVR), or by accessing the conference directly, and whether the
conferencing service level is Operator Attended or Unattended.
When defining a conference, you select the media resources (Audio Only or
Video & Audio), the parameters which determine the quality of the
transmission over these media, and the operations that can be performed
during the conference.