Joining a Meet-Me Conference
Cisco 7960/7940 Telephone User Guide
System Telephone Features
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Adding More Ports to an Active Meet-Me Conference
During an active conference call, the moderator may add more ports if needed. To
add more ports, do the following:
1.
Press
*3
. The moderator will hear:
“Please enter the number of ports you wish to add followed by the # key.”
2.
Enter the number of ports to be added, then press the
#
key. The system will
check the availability of the ports and report results to the moderator. For
example, the moderator wants to add six ports:
•
If all six ports are available, the moderator will hear:
“Six additional ports have been reserved for this conference.”
•
If only 5 of 6 ports are available, the moderator will hear:
“Five of six additional ports have been reserved for this conference.”
•
If no ports are available, the moderator will hear:
“We are sorry, additional ports are not available at this time.”
Dropping a Conference Call
Should it be necessary, a moderator may be drop (end) a conference call while in
progress. Reasons for dropping a conference call may include participants
becoming loud, not allowing others to talk, and lack of courtesy, among others. To
drop a conference call, press
*7
. All callers will be disconnected from the
conference call and the call terminated.
However, the meet-me conference reservation remains in effect and partitipants
can be invited to re-join the conference by dialing the meet-me conference number
and entering the appropriate guest ID.
Muting a Conference Call
Only the moderator of the meet-me conference call can mute (disable the ability to
speak in the conference) all parties in the meet-me conference call. The moderator
also has the ability to un-mute (restore conversation).
The Mute function is toggled from the keypad by pressing
*5
to enable or disable
the mute function.
When Mute is in effect, the moderator can still speak to all members of the
conference, but members of the conference cannot heard. Also the moderator may
leave and re-join the muted conference, but will not be muted (i.e., the moderator
can still talk to conference members).
When a meet-me conference is muted, all parties in the conference hear an
announcement that the conference has been muted.
