Aethra avc500 User Guide
Multiconference Setup
Before activating a multiconference session, configuration is required.
From the Home Page select:
From the Home Page select:
1. SETTINGS
2. MULTICONFERENCE
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
• 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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Note
In a mixed-mode MCU session, the user can choose to substitute NIC protocol for ISDN. So in a multiconference with an
active NIC connection, no ISDN connections are allowed, and in a multiconference with an active ISDN connection, no NIC
connections are allowed
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