TANDBERG 1700 MXP User Manual - page 51
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TANDBERG 1700
MXP
USER GUIDE
Layout
WhenyouarethehostofaMultiSitevideomeeting,youhave
controlofthemainconferenceimagelayout.Thelayoutchosen
byyouistransmittedtotheotherparticipantsasasingle
imageanditslayoutcannotbechangedbythem.However,they
mayconfiguretheirownscreenusingthe
Layout
buttononthe
RemoteControl.Theirchoicesaretheimageyousendoutin
fullscreen,orasside-by-side–yourimageandtheirselfview.
Video Meetings with Several Participants – an Overview
About MCU and MultiSite
TheTANDBERG1700
MXP
canhandleupto4IPvideocalls
and3IPtelephonecallssimultaneously.Tobeabletodothis,
the1700
MXP
hasabuilt-inMCU(MultipointControlUnit)
calledMultiSite.TheMultiSitesupportsbothSplitScreen
andVoiceSwitchedmode–seebelow.
Youmaysetupavideomeetingwiththeparticipantsin
advanceand/oryoumayaddparticipantsduringaconference.
Moreaboutthiscanbefoundin
MultiSiteConferences–Adding
Calls
.
YoumayalsohaveyoursystemconnectedtoanexternalMCU
toparticipateinvideomeetingswithamultitudeofpartici-
pants.ContactyoursystemadministratororyourTANDBERG
representativefordetails.
Request, Release, and Assign Floor
Whenrequestingfloor,yourvideowillbebroadcastedinfull
screentoallotherparticipantsintheconference.Request
Floorisusefulwhenyouwanttospeakordisplaysomething
infrontofallparticipants.
ReleaseFloorwhenyouaredoneandmaketheflooravail-
ableforotherparticipantsintheconference.Anindicator
appearswhenyouhaveflooranddisappearswhenyou
releasefloor.
Ifyoursystemistheoneconnectedtoalltheothersystems,
youwillbethehostofthemeetingandyouwillalsobeable
toassignthefloortoothers.
Terminal Names
Youmaywanttoseealistofalltheparticipantsina
MultiSitevideomeeting.Forthispurposethereisalistof
theterminalnamesavailable.
MultiSite Features
Who Becomes the Host?
ThehostofaMultiSitevideomeetingistheendpointto
whichalltheothersareconnected.
IftwosystemsbothsupportingMultiSitebothhave
establishedaMultiSitecallandoneofthesecalltheother,
cascadingwilltakeplace.Thismeansthatyoumayhave
moreparticipantsintotalthanasinglesystemsupports.In
thiscase,thehostwillbetheonecallingtheother.
ExampleofaMultiSite
conferencewith4videocalls
and3telephonecalls.Thehost
isshownincolour.
Split Screen and Voice Switching
Inordertobeabletoseealltheparticiapntsallthetime,
thescreenmaybesetinSplitScreenmode,dividingthe
screenintoseveralimages.Voiceswitchingwillgivepriority
totheparticipantspeakingloudest.
Tip!
PresentationandDualVideoStreamarenotconstrained
topoint-to-pointcalls,sotheyworkevenhere.See
Presenta-
tion
and
DualVideoStream
fordetails.