Making Conference Calls; Types Of Supported Conference Calls - Cisco 7961G-GE Phone Manual

• You can forward your calls to a traditional analog phone or to another IP phone,
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although your system administrator might restrict the call forwarding feature to numbers
within your company.
• You must configure this feature per line; if a call reaches you on a line where call
forwarding is not enabled, the call will ring as usual.

Making Conference Calls

Your Cisco IP Phone allows you to join three or more people into one telephone conversation, creating
a conference call.

Types of Supported Conference Calls

There are two types of conference calls: Standard and Meet-Me.
Standard Conference Calls
In standard (or "ad hoc") conference calls, the conference organizer must call participants to add them
to the conference. Using your Cisco IP Phone, you can create standard conference calls in different
ways, depending on your needs and your phone's configuration:
• Confrn—Use this softkey to establish a standard conference by calling each participant. Standard
conference calling is a default feature available on most phones.
• Join—Use this softkey to establish a standard conference among several calls already on one line.
• cBarge—Use this softkey to add yourself to an existing call on a shared line and to turn the call
into a standard conference call. This is an optional feature available only for shared lines, and your
system administrator must configure it for you. See the "Using a Shared Line" section on page 37
for details.
See the "Starting and Joining a Standard Conference" section on page 32 for additional instructions.
Meet-Me Conference Calls
Meet-Me conferencing allows participants to join a conference by calling the conference number
directly, rather than waiting for the conference initiator to call them.
To start a Meet-Me conference, use the MeetMe softkey on your phone, then dial the Meet-Me phone
number provided to you by your system administrator. To participate in a Meet-Me conference, dial
the Meet-Me phone number at a specified time. Conference participants hear a busy tone if they call
into the conference before the conference initiator has dialed in. Once the conference initiator has
dialed in, the Meet-Me conference is established and can continue even if the conference initiator
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