Scheduled Conferencing / Reservations; Polycom Conferencing For Microsoft Outlook; Connection Methods; Cascading Conferences - Polycom DOC2585A Getting Started Manual

Chapter 1-System Overview
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• Meeting Rooms – set up once, use many times.
Meeting Rooms are saved in memory (using no resources) and can be
activated as many times as needed.
• Ad Hoc Entry Queue – no setup, a new conference can be created when
a user dials in and enters a conference ID that is not being used by an
existing conference or Meeting Room.
• Gateway calls – from IP endpoints to other participants, using the
direct dialing method, with up to 10 destination numbers contained
in a single dial string.

Scheduled Conferencing / Reservations

Reservations provide calendar-based scheduling of single or recurring
conferences. These conferences can be launched immediately or become
ongoing, at a specified time on a specified date.
Polycom Conferencing for Microsoft Outlook®
Polycom Conferencing for Microsoft Outlook is implemented by installing the
Polycom Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Outlook on the Microsoft Exchange
®
Server and Microsoft Outlook e-mail clients. It enables meetings to be
scheduled with video endpoints from within Outlook. The add-in also
adds a Polycom Conference button in the Meeting tab of the Microsoft
Outlook e-mail client ribbon.

Connection Methods

IPv4, IPv6, ISDN and PSTN communication protocols are supported for
connection to the conference.
• Dial-out: automatically, to pre-defined participants (line rate
detection is automatic)
• Dial-in:
— for participants defined in advance (IP participants only)
— for undefined participants directly to a conference (IP and
ISDN/PSTN)
— for undefined participants via a single dial Entry Queue (IP and
ISDN/PSTN)

Cascading Conferences

• Simple Cascading (Star Topology).
• Multi Hierarchy Cascading (MIH).