TANDBERG MXP User Manual - page 26
D14034.04—MAY 2008
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MXP Video endpoints
User Guide
Making calls
Video conferences
Video conferencing systems quipped with the
optional built-in
can handle several
video calls and telephone-only calls simultaneously.
How many depends on the type of TANDBERG
video system you are using.
You may set up a video meeting with many
participants in advance and/or you may add
participants during a conference. This is called to
add another call.
Observe that the ability to add another callis an
optional feature, which your system may, or may
not, be equipped with.
Systems without this option will have no Add
Another Call icon in the menus.
Using group entries from the phone book
If you dislike the idea of having to look up each
and every party to call every time you are about
initiate a conference, you may like to know that it is
possible to add group entries to the phone book.
This is a handy feature whenever you want to set
up meetings with the same group frequently.
More on this can be found in
Phone book
usage
.
IP and ISDN communication
Some TANDBERG systems use IP (Internet
Protocol) for video communication, while others
use ISDN as well as IP.
Observe that in order to be able to communicate
with 3G mobile phones and to enable
communication between ISDN- and IP-based
systems, access to additional functionality
hardware may be required.
Consult your system administrator or your
TANDBERG representative for details.
How many participants are possible?
This depends on the configuration of your
TANDBERG system. The larger systems have
an optional built-in MCU (MultiConference Unit)
opening up for 4–6 simultaneous participants plus
extras on voice-only (telephone), while the smaller
systems do not have this feature at all.
All systems can, however, be connected to a
network containing external MCUs. These MCUs
are capable of running several video conferences
with many participants each, simultaneously. read
more about this on the next page
To learn more about the actual configuration
available in your system, contact your system
administrator.
If you are the one who initiated
the video conference, you are
considered as the host by the
system.
In MultiSite calls (i.e. video conferences with more than
two participants) the term Far End will loose its meaning
since it will not be unambiguous whom we refer to.
This means that some features normally available
during point-to–point calls—like far end camera
control—won’t be available during MultiSite calls.