Cisco CP-7985-PAL Phone Guide - Page 32

Making Conference Calls Conference calling allows three or more parties to participate in a call simultaneously. Your Cisco Unified IP Video Phone can support several types of conference calls depending on your needs and your phone configuration. The softkeys identify which methods are available on your phone: • Confrn-Use this softkey to establish standard conferences by calling each participant individually. Standard conference calling represents a default feature that is available on most phones. • Join-Use this softkey to establish a standard conference among several calls who are already on the line. • cBarge-Use this softkey to establish a standard conference call on a shared line. Your system administrator must configure this optional feature that is available only for shared lines. • Meet-Me-Use this softkey to host a conference (up to 100 participants, depending on configuration) that requires participants to call an established number at a specific time. Your system administrator must configure this optional feature for you. Starting and Joining a Standard Conference A standard conference allows at least three people to participate in a single call. The conference gets set up as an audio conference or a video conference depending on how your system administrator configured your phone. The system administrator also configures what kind of view that is displayed. The VidMode softkey allows the user to switch between Voice Activated and Continuous view of the conference. Voice Activated view displays the speaking part in full screen. Continuous view displays all participants on the screen simultaneously. If you want to... Then... Invite current callers to join a standard conference With two or more calls on a single line, scroll to highlight any call on the line and press Select. Repeat this process for each call that you want to add to the conference. From one of the selected calls, press Join. (You may need to press the more softkey first.) The selected calls automatically gets added to the conference. All selected calls must be on the same line. Establish a standard conference call by calling participants During a connected call, press Confrn to add another party to the call. (You may need to press the more softkey first.) Enter the conference participant phone number. After the call connects and you have spoken to the conference participant, press Confrn again to add this party to your call. Follow this procedure to add each participant. Join a standard conference Answer the phone when it rings. You do not need to do anything special to join a standard conference call. 26 78-16798-02