Specifying Dial Options; Forcing Mcu Usage - Polycom ReadiManagerLX100 Administrator's Manual

Video/Audio

Specifying Dial Options

Forcing MCU Usage

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Note: Only regular POTS audio phones can be used--not ISDN endpoints. Attempting to
mimic an audio call using a 64K dial speed through an audio/video endpoint may result in
the call being dropped, or in very poor audio quality.
Video/Audio allows you to use a combination of video and audio connections in this
conference, and to reserve the required bandwidth and equipment associated with
resources, as well as the rooms. The conference can use a combination of both Dial-In
and Dial-Out, or you can specify that it should be Dial In only, if you want all connections
to be made through one bridge.
You can determine whether a conference will require all endpoints to dial in to the
conference, or whether a combination of dial-in and dial-out will be allowed.
When you want an MCU (also known as a "bridge") to create a dial-in conference for
which a particular phone number and pin code are created for all conference
participants, use the Dial-In Only setting. With a dial-in conference, any audio or video
system can dial in, and all participants will be connected to the same conference inside
the bridge. This allows participants to dial into the bridge at their convenience from
anywhere they choose.
When you want to be able to dial-out to a video system, as well as to have participants
dial in, use the Dial Out/Dial In setting.
When you specify Dial Out/Dial In, you can specify the individual resources that you
want to dial in. For example, you might specify that a particular end-point should use
dial-in, in which case a bridge will create a dial-in number for it. For more information,
see Changing Dial-In Settings for Individual Resources
Note:
When selecting the Dial-in only option from the Advanced Settings dialog box, all
selected resources are forced to be dial-in only. When you change that selection to
Dial-in/Dial-out, the individual selected resources continue to be set to dial-in. If you want
them to be dial-out, you will need to uncheck "Dial-in" on an individual basis.
The Force MCU usage is set automatically if you specify Bridged Audio Only. You may
also want to use this setting if you want to require all endpoints to dial in to a single
Chapter 7 - Using the Scheduling Wizard
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