Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Installation Guide
Cisco MeetingServer 5.1 Installation Planning Guide
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Cisco Systems
March 2003
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Start meeting with floor open
Automatically enables all participants to
enter the meeting via the meeting room with their speaking ability turned
on. When the meeting is set to begin, the meeting controller can “Close
the floor” and thereby turn off participants’ speaking ability.
on. When the meeting is set to begin, the meeting controller can “Close
the floor” and thereby turn off participants’ speaking ability.
For more information about scheduling a lecture-style meeting, see
“Scheduling and Hosting Lecture-Style Meetings” in Chapter 7.
“Scheduling and Hosting Lecture-Style Meetings” in Chapter 7.
Tip: For increased efficiency, it is recommended that you schedule large
meetings
meetings
any meeting involving more than 100 participantsas lecture-
style meetings rather than “all speaker” meetings. When scheduling large
meetings, ensure that all entry/departure announcements are set to “Silent”
and that the roll call feature is disabled.
meetings, ensure that all entry/departure announcements are set to “Silent”
and that the roll call feature is disabled.
To monitor large meetings, meeting controllers must be using MeetingTime
5.0 or later.
5.0 or later.
Q&A Meetings
Q&A Meetings are an enhancement to the lecture-style meeting. With the
Q&A feature, listen-only participants can “Request the floor” to ask a
question, and moderators can selectively grant temporary speaking ability to
those participants. MeetingTime provides full feature control and the
MeetingPlace touchtone interface will provide capabilities for both listen-
only participants and moderators.
Q&A feature, listen-only participants can “Request the floor” to ask a
question, and moderators can selectively grant temporary speaking ability to
those participants. MeetingTime provides full feature control and the
MeetingPlace touchtone interface will provide capabilities for both listen-
only participants and moderators.
Multiserver Meetings
Multiserver meetings allow participants on different MeetingPlace servers to
communicate with each other as if they were in the same meeting.
Multiserver meetings are ideal for:
communicate with each other as if they were in the same meeting.
Multiserver meetings are ideal for:
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Minimizing long distance calls between major corporate locations. Users
in a particular region can connect to their local conference servers, and
the conference servers will automatically call each other over standard
phone lines to form a multiserver meeting. This reduces the number of
long distance calls required to connect the users.
in a particular region can connect to their local conference servers, and
the conference servers will automatically call each other over standard
phone lines to form a multiserver meeting. This reduces the number of
long distance calls required to connect the users.
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Large conference calls (over 550 participants) that require more than one
MeetingPlace M3 server. Multiserver meetings can be conducted across
both M3 and PCI platforms.
MeetingPlace M3 server. Multiserver meetings can be conducted across
both M3 and PCI platforms.
“Zero-port” Meetings
A zero-port meeting is a meeting that allows you to conduct a web
conference without a corresponding voice conference. It is particularly
useful for two people engaged in a telephone conversation who wish to share
documents. As suggested, zero-port meetings take up no port resources on
your server.
conference without a corresponding voice conference. It is particularly
useful for two people engaged in a telephone conversation who wish to share
documents. As suggested, zero-port meetings take up no port resources on
your server.