Polycom (RMX) 1500 User Manual

RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX) 1500/1800/2000/4000 Administrator’s Guide 

Polycom®, Inc. 

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During the Gathering Phase, the audio of all participants can be heard, and the video of active speakers is 
displayed in the video windows as they begin talking.

All connected participants are kept informed about the current conference status including names of 
connected participants, participant count, participant type (video/audio) etc.

● Gathering Phase is only available in AVC only (CP only) conferences. It is not supported in Video 

Switching conferences and SVC Only conferences.

● The Gathering Phase slide can be displayed at any time during the conference by entering the Show 

Participants DTMF code, *88. 
Note: When the display of the Gathering Phase slide is removed, the message overlay text is also 

removed.

● The names of the first eight participants to connect are displayed. If eight or more participants 

connect, the 8th row displays “…”.

● Static text in the Gathering Phase slide such as the field headings: Organizer, Duration, Video/Audio 

Participants, Access Number, IP are always displayed in the language as configured in the Polycom 

Virtual Meeting Rooms Add-in for Microsoft Outlook. The following languages are supported:
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English

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French

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German

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International Spanish

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Korean

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Japanese

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Simplified Chinese

● Dynamic text in the Gathering Phase slide such as the meeting name, participants’ names, access 

numbers and the additional information entered in the Info1/2/3 fields of the Gathering Settings tab 

of the conference Profile are displayed in the language of the meeting invitation.

● The language of a Gathering Phase slide of a conference configured to include a Gathering Phase 

that is not launched by the Polycom Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Outlook is configured by the 

administrator. Using the Collaboration Server Web Client, the administrator selects the language for 

the Gathering Phase slide. The language selected can be different to that of the Collaboration Server 

Web Client used by the administrator to perform the configuration.