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Cascading Conferences
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Video Layouts in Cascaded Conferences
Guidelines
To ensure that conferences can be cascaded and video can be viewed in all conferences the following
guidelines are recommended:
● The same version installed on all MCUs participating the cascading topology
● The same license installed on all MCUs participating the cascading topology
● Same Conference Parameters are defined in the Profile of the conferences participating in the
cascading topology
Conference line rates should be identical
Content rate should be identical
Same encryption settings
● DTMF codes should be defined with the same numeric codes in the IVR services assigned to the
cascading conferences
● DTMF forwarding is suppressed
● The video layout of the link is set to 1x1 by the appropriate system flag.