Starting A Conference; Adding A Call To A Conference - Broadconnect IP Office 1408 User Manual

8. Conference Calls
Multiple conference calls are supported, with parties addable to each conference call until the system's conference
capacity, up to 128, is reached. However, a maximum of 64 parties is supported in any particular conference call.
Conference resources are also used for call recording and other features, reducing the available conference capacity for
ordinary conference calls.
Default Short Codes
Short codes are numbers that you can dial to enable and disable various features. The following are default short codes
that may be available. Your system administrator will confirm any additional short codes that they may have configured
for your use.
· Conference Held Calls: *47
Start a conference between yourself and any calls that you have on hold.

8.1 Starting a Conference

If you have more than one held call, or one held call and a connected call, pressing the
a conference between yourself and the calls.
If you do not already have a held call, you can use the process below to start a conference.
1. Make a call to the first party or answer a call.
2. Press the CONFERENCE key. The current call is automatically put on hold.
3. Dial the party that you want to add to the conference.
4. If they answer and want to join the call, press the
5. If they do not want to join the call or do not answer, press
held call (fast green flash).

8.2 Adding a Call to a Conference

You can add additional parties to an existing conference.
1. Press the HOLD key to put the conference on hold. This does not affect the other conference parties who can
continue talking to each other.
2. Press an available appearance key on which to make a call.
3. Dial the party that you want to add to the conference.
4. If they answer and want to join the call, press the
5. If they do not want to join the call or do not answer, press
held call (fast green flash).
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CONFERENCE key again or press the Join soft key.
DROP and then press the appearance key of the
CONFERENCE key again or press the Join soft key.
DROP and then press the appearance key of the
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CONFERENCE key will start
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