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MXP Series Video Endpoints
User Guide
D1479201 MXP Series User Guide, May 2011.
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Adding calls to a conference…
The MultiSite feature
Conference systems with the optional
built-in MultiSite can handle up to 4–6
video calls and up to 3 telephone calls
simultaneously, depending on the
system.
You may set up a video meeting with
many participants in advance and/
or you may add participants during
a conference. This is called to
add
another call
.
Observe that the ability to add another
call is an optional feature, which your
system may, or may not, be equipped
with.
Systems without this option will not
have the
Add Another Call
icon in the
menus.
The Multiway feature
However, your system may be equipped
with the MultiWay feature. This feature
allows you to set up conferences with
many participants from your video
system.
MultiWay enables systems with no
conference option installed to run
complex video conferences with many
participants.
The MultiWay feature requires the
presence of an external MCU (Multi
Conference Unit) and the TANDBERG
VCS (Video Communication Server).
The MCU will run the conference for
you, if your system does not support
conferencing.
Consult your system administrator to
clarify whether this feature exists in
your system, if needed.
Using phone book group entries
If you dislike the idea of having to
look up each and every party to call
every time you are about initiate a
conference, you may like to know that
you may add group entries to the phone
book.
This is a handy feature whenever you
want to set up meetings with the same
group frequently.
More on this can be found in
Phone
book usage
.
About video conferences
Part 2: Adding calls to a conference
Assuming that you already are in a call, press the
OK
key to produce the main menu,
which now looks slightly different:
Select this icon
and press the
OK
key to start adding
participants…
The one you are already in call with.
Enter new “number”
here.
Select this icon and press
the
OK
key to open the
phone book as usual.
Once you have entered the second party to call, select the
green
Call
icon and press the
OK
key, just press the green
Call
key on the remote control.
The
Add Another Call
icon.
Repeat this process for as long as necessary (until the
upper limit is reached for your system, of course).
You may also use the
Add Another Call
icon to specify
everyone to be called before you actually call them.
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