Including Multiple Sites In Calls; Placing A Multipoint Call - Polycom RealPresence Group Series User Manual

User's Guide for the Polycom RealPresence Group Series and the Polycom Touch Control

Including Multiple Sites in Calls

Placing a Multipoint Call

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For information about using a Microsoft Office Communications Server or
Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010 directory or managing Microsoft Office
Communications Server or Microsoft Lync contacts, refer to
Using Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 or Microsoft Lync
Server 2010 on page 25.
Sites that you have added are stored on your RealPresence Group system as
Contacts. Everyone at your site who uses the system can use the contact entries
to place calls. Users at other sites cannot access the contacts on your system.
Polycom RealPresence Group systems support up to 2,000 contacts. They can
also support the following:
• An unlimited number of contacts when the RealPresence Group system is
registered with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 or
Microsoft Lync Server 2010
• Up to 200 additional contacts with presence when registered with a
Polycom Converged Management Application™ (CMA
During a multipoint call, multiple sites can see and hear each other. You can
also share content in a multipoint call, just as you can in a point-to-point call.
All systems can participate in multipoint calls. To host multipoint calls, your
RealPresence Group 500 or 700 system must have an option key installed. You
can host multipoint calls using a video conferencing system with multipoint
capabilities, or you can use a bridge such as the Polycom RMX 1000 or
Polycom RMX 2000.
You cannot host multipoint calls with a RealPresence Group 300 system.
How you place a multipoint call depends on whether you're using a
RealPresence Group system with multipoint capabilities or a bridge such as a
Polycom RMX conference platform. The number of sites allowed in the call is
determined by the capabilities of the system hosting the call.
To place a multipoint call by adding sites to a call:
1 Call the first site.
Managing Contacts
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