TANDBERG MXP User Manual - page 27
D14034.04—MAY 2008
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MXP Video endpoints
User Guide
Making calls
Adding calls to a conference
Conference systems with the optional built-in
can handle up to 4–6 video calls and
up to 3 telephone calls simultaneously, depending
on the system.
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.
Multiway (Beta)
However, your system may be equipped with the
MultiWay (Beta) feature. This feature allows you to
set up conferences with many participants from
your video system.
MultiWay (Beta) enables systems with no
conference option installed to run complex video
conferences with many participants. For systems
with built-in conference capabilities the number of
participants can be expanded beyond the systems’
own maximum number of participants supported.
The MultiWay (Beta) feature requires the presence
of an external MCU (MultiConference Unit), but also
a TANDBERG Gatekeeper or the TANDBERG VCS.
This MCU will run the conference for you, if your
system does not support conferencing or if you try
to expand the number of participants beyond the
number supported by the system itself.
Consult your system administrator to clarify
whether this feature exists in your system, if
needed.
Adding calls to a conference…
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 you may
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
.
Assuming that you already are in a call, press
the OK key to produce the main menu, which
now looks slightly different:
Select this icon and press the OK key to
start adding participants…
The one you are already in call with.
Enter new
“number”
here.
Select this icon and press the OK
key to open the phone book.
Once you have entered
the second party to
call, select the green
Call icon and press the
OK key, just press the
green Call key on the
remote control.
The Add Another
Call icon.
Repeat this process for as long as necessary (until the
upper limit is reached for your system, of course).
You may also use the Add Another Call icon to specify
everyone to be called before you actually call them.