Version 9.0 - New Features List - Polycom MGC-25 Release Notes

Version 9.0 - New Features List

The following table lists the new features in Version 9.0.
Table 1: New Features List
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Category Feature Name
Video Automatic Setting of
Cascading Link to CP
1x1 Layout
Video Video Invite
General External DB
Modifications
General Permanent Conference
General National N1 & N2
General SilenceIT Additions
Partners Ad Hoc conferencing in
Avaya environment
Partners Dial plan and Dial-out
options for Microsoft
Office Communicator
Version 9.0 - New Features List
Description
During Continuous Presence (CP)
cascaded conferences, by default the
video layout of the cascaded link is
automatically set to full screen (1x1),
showing in each conference only the
last/current speaker (in a full video
window) from the other conference.
Video Invite is extended to include ISDN,
MPI and SIP participants.
In version 9.0, additional modes are used
for verifying with the external database
application the participant's right to start
a new conference and the participant
right to join an ongoing conference.
These modes are cotrolled by flags
added to the system.cfg.
The Auto Extension mechanism has
been changed to enable the system to
automatically extend an ongoing
conference indefinitely, creating a
permanent ongoing conference on the
MCU.
Switch Type National ISDN NI1 & NI2 is
now supported in ISDN T1 Network
Services.
A new mechanism is introduced,
enabling fine tuning of the SilenceIT
algorithm.
Ad Hoc conferencing is now enabled for
Avaya Call Manager (ACM) and Avaya
endpoints.
Microsoft Office Communicator users
can now add or dial out to an MPI
participant during an ongoing
conference.
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