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Scheduling Conferences
You manage conferences from the calendar view of conferences in the Scheduler. You can view all
conferences by day, week, or month.
Allocating Ports
You can create both scheduled and on demand conferences. Scheduled conferences have a specific start
and end time; on demand conferences do not. An on demand conference has no allocated ports; it can use
any available port not scheduled or active.
An on demand conference includes all attributes of a scheduled conference except the start and end time
and recurrence settings. This conference begins if requested ports are available when the first participant
attempts to join.
The Scheduler manages all scheduling of ports and ensures there are no conflicts with the available ports.
Each participant in a conference uses one port. You can choose 2 through 16 ports for the conference, and
additionally select 16 ports and then select Expand to accommodate up to 48 participants.
NOTE
Expand is available for scheduled conferences only, if all ports are available,
and if a license for this feature is available. Read more about
Conference.
Up to eight conferences can be active at one time. Scheduled conferences take priority over on demand
conferences. Therefore, if you create 2 two-way scheduled conferences and 10 on demand conferences,
only 6 of the on demand conferences can become active, consisting of two participants in each. In this
scenario, attempts to join the remaining on demand conferences are rejected and the caller receives a
busy signal.
If two active, scheduled conferences are using 4 ports and 6 ports respectively, 10 ports are scheduled,
leaving 6 ports available for on demand conferences. If a scheduled conference requiring 3 ports becomes
active, the longest running on demand conference(s) terminates to free the necessary 3 ports for the
scheduled conference.
Up to 40 on demand conferences are supported. On demand conferences are listed in a separate view in
the Scheduler, to the left of the calendar view. If you have reached the maximum number, the
disabled.
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