Aethra avc8500 User Guide

 

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Before activating a multiconference session, configuration is required. 

From the Home Page select: 

1. SETTINGS 
2. MULTICONFERENCE 

The following will be displayed: 

 

In this menu you can set: 

•  Network Type: IP, ISDN or Mixed.  

•  Conference Type: allows you to select the number of participants and the desired rate (example: for an MCU IP you 

select 8@256 from the drop-down menu, which means that the MCU will allow the System to manage a 
multiconference with a maximum of 8 terminals (including itself), via IP, with a maximum rate of 256K for each 
connection). 

•  Preferred Audio Coding 

•  Preferred Video Coding 

Go to the corresponding drop-down menu, press OK, with the aid of the arrow keys on the remote control make 

your selection and press OK again to confirm. <Auto> is the default setting. 

In addition, you can select the following options: 

•  Automatic rate adaptation and automatic encoding adaptation 

If automatic adaptation is enabled, the System will automatically adapt the multiconference to the audio/video 
encoding and bit rate of the lowest quality connection within the conference, without excluding any participant. 

•  Continuous presence 

Enable/Disable transmission of Continuous presence: for multiconferences (at least two participants) all participating 
sites receive the signals simultaneously from all participating terminals. 

•  Ask to save scenario: At the close of the multiconference, the system asks whether save in the phonebook all 

information needed to repeat it, with an editable “conference name.” 

•  Mode (only for MCU ISDN or Mixed) 

Multiple of 64K 
Multiple of 56K. 

•  Master or Slave Cascade Role. 

This option allows you to set up cascaded MCUs in a two-level hierarchy tree. Corresponding to the base node of the 
cascade there is the Master System, with Slave Systems for the child nodes. 

 
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