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MultiSite Features
Video Meetings with Several Participants – an Overview
About MCU and MultiSite
The TANDBERG 1700 MXP can handle up to 4 IP video calls
and 3 IP telephone calls simultaneously. To be able to do this,
the 1700 MXP has a built-in MCU (Multipoint Control Unit)
called MultiSite. The MultiSite supports both Split Screen
and Voice Switched mode – see below.
You may set up a video meeting with the participants in
advance and/or you may add participants during a conference.
More about this can be found in MultiSite Conferences – Adding
Calls.
You may also have your system connected to an external MCU
to participate in video meetings with a multitude of partici-
pants. Contact your system administrator or your TANDBERG
representative for details.
Who Becomes the Host?
The host of a MultiSite video meeting is the endpoint to
which all the others are connected.
If two systems both supporting MultiSite both have
established a MultiSite call and one of these call the other,
cascading will take place. This means that you may have
more participants in total than a single system supports. In
this case, the host will be the one calling the other.
Request, Release, and Assign Floor
When requesting floor, your video will be broadcasted in full
screen to all other participants in the conference. Request
Floor is useful when you want to speak or display something
in front of all participants.
Release Floor when you are done and make the floor avail-
able for other participants in the conference. An indicator
appears when you have floor and disappears when you
release floor.
If your system is the one connected to all the other systems,
you will be the host of the meeting and you will also be able
to assign the floor to others.
D 13954.01
JUNE 2006
Example of a MultiSite
conference with 4 video calls
and 3 telephone calls. The host
is shown in colour.
Terminal Names
You may want to see a list of all the participants in a
MultiSite video meeting. For this purpose there is a list of
the terminal names available.
Split Screen and Voice Switching
In order to be able to see all the particiapnts all the time,
the screen may be set in Split Screen mode, dividing the
screen into several images. Voice switching will give priority
to the participant speaking loudest.
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Layout
When you are the host of a MultiSite video meeting, you have
control of the main conference image layout. The layout chosen
by you is transmitted to the other participants as a single
image and its layout cannot be changed by them. However, they
may configure their own screen using the Layout button on the
Remote Control. Their choices are the image you send out in
full screen, or as side-by-side – your image and their self view.
Tip!
Presentation and Dual Video Stream are not constrained
to point-to-point calls, so they work even here. See Presenta-
tion and Dual Video Stream for details.
TANDBERG 1700
MXP
USER GUIDE
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