Ad Hoc Auto Cascade; Detailed Description - Polycom MGC+100 Release Note

Ad Hoc Auto Cascade

The Auto Cascade feature enables automatic cascading of conferences. Both audio only
and video conferences can be cascaded.

Detailed Description

The automatic cascading of conferences is beneficial in distributed MCU environment,
when MCUs are installed in different locations. A maximum of six conferences can be
Auto Cascaded into one conference. The MCU network can support multiple Auto
Cascaded conferences simultaneously.
The cascading is performed by an Ad Hoc Cascade component in the WebCommander
Professional which monitors the MCUs. When the Ad Hoc Cascade component finds that
two or more MCUs are running a conference with the same Conference Numeric ID, it
checks if the conferences are already cascaded by looking for a cascading link between the
conferences. If there are no cascading links, conferences are automatically connected using
pre-defined cascading links. If at a later stage the Ad Hoc Cascade component finds an
additional MCU running a conference with the same Numeric ID, it adds the conference to
the cascaded conferences.
Set up identical Ad Hoc Entry Queues and Profiles on each MCU, so that the cascaded
conferences will have the same properties.
To use the Auto Cascade feature, the system.cfg flag
QUICK_LOGIN_VIA_ENTRY_QUEUE must be set to NO on all MCUs, that is, the
Conference Numeric ID routing mode must be used. This flag is located in the GREET
AND GUIDE/IVR section of the system.cfg file.
Detailed Description - General
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