Setting Up An Announced Conference; Adding A Recipient To An Existing Conference; Creating A Cascaded Conference - 3Com 3500 Manual

1 While on a call, press Conference or Feature + 6 + 430. The system places the other
party of the call on hold.
2 Dial the number of the person you want to conference in.
3 Press Conference or Feature + 6 + 430 again. The three-way conference begins when the
recipient answers the call.

Setting up an Announced Conference

In an announced conference, you call the recipient and announce that you want to
conference him/her into a call. The recipient can then decide whether to take the call:
1 While on a call, press Conference or Feature + 6 + 430. The system places the other
party of the call on hold.
2 Dial the number of the person you want to conference in, then press the Dial or # button,
or press Feature + 6 + 120.
3 When the called party answers, you can ask him/her whether he/she would like to join
the conference.

Adding a Recipient to an Existing Conference

While participating in a conference of three to five people, any recipient in the
conference can add a new recipient. While a new recipient is being added, the existing
recipients in the conference, including the originator, are still able to communicate, but
there is no ring back tone associated with the new recipient. If a party other than the
originator adds a new recipient, then a cascaded conference is formed. The process to
add a recipient is identical to Setting up an Unannounced Conference or Setting up an
Announced Conference.

Creating a Cascaded Conference

Once you establish a conference, anyone in the conference, excluding the originator,
can create a cascaded conference by initiating a conference call to another party or
parties. Those parties in turn can initiate another cascaded conference. For example,
telephone P1 (originator) calls phones P2, P3, P4, P5 and P6 to establish a 6-party
conference (called C1). Telephone P3 then calls phones P7 and P8. Telephone P3
creates a cascaded conference and is the originator of a 3-party conference (called C2).
Conference C2 is now cascaded with C1. Telephone P8 then calls P9 to create
conference C3 and is cascaded with C2. Cascading can continue until the maximum
number of ports on the conference server has been reached.
If the recipient wants to join the conference, press Conference or Feature + 6 + 430.
And then the 3-party conference starts.
If the recipient does not want to join the conference, hang up the second call and go
back to the first call by pressing the End Call button for that call.
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