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MGC-50/MGC-100 Getting Started Guide
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database application whether a conference with a specific Numeric ID may be
started. This is the method used with Windows Messenger and Office
Communicator to initiate multipoint Video or Audio conferences.
For more information about Ad Hoc conferencing, see the MGC Manager
User’s Guide, Volume II, Chapter 3.
Meeting Rooms
Meeting Rooms are conferences created once, with no starting date or time,
no reserved resources and it can be activated as many times as required. The
Meeting Room remains in passive mode until the first participant connects to
it and activates the conference. To start the conference you simply let the
participants know the start date and time, dial-in number and the Numeric ID
of the conference. No prior booking is required. The conference returns to
passive mode once the conference ends and remains in the MCU memory
until the next activation. In this mode, a Meeting Room is usually defined for
each of the employees in your organization. This may require tedious work
when your organization includes many employees, and it also loads the MCU
memory with all the saved Meeting Rooms.
Scheduled Conferences
You can define a conference to start at a certain date and time or to start
immediately. Scheduled conferences run once and are then deleted from the
MCU memory. For scheduled conferences, the MCU reserves resources for
the conference participants, provided the participant endpoints are defined
during the conference definition. You can define conferences without
defining their participants and let participants connect to the conference as
long as there are resources available.