Installation manual

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Multiconference Setup
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.