Filter
Top Products
Advanced Use TANDBERG Director Videoconferencing System
60
MCU services
A Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) enables several sites to participate in the same conference.
An MCU conference can have different modes:
Voice Switched
Means that the image of the person currently speaking
will be broadcast to all the other conference
participants. This will remain the case until another
participant starts to speak.
Continuous Presence
Shows several participants on the same screen at the
same time.
Chairman Control
functionality enables one participant to control the
meeting by selecting which of the conference
participants is to be broadcast to the other participants.
The system can also control external MCUs in a very flexible
manner using the functions described below.
Quick Menu
When connected to an MCU
This menu provides access to the most commonly used MCU functions.
If ‘Request Floor’ is selected, ‘Request Floor’ will change to ‘Release Floor’.
If ‘View Site#’ is selected, ‘View Site #’ will change to ‘End View’.
Selecting ‘Take Chair’ will send a request to take chair. If granted, the QUICK KEYS will be:
If ‘Floor to Site#’ is selected, ‘Floor to Site#’ will change to ‘Rel. Floor To Site’.
If ‘Release Chair’ is selected, you will return to the original ‘Quick Menu’.
TIP
PRESS ANY QUICK KEY WHEN IN A
MULTIPOINT
CONFERENCE TO
ACTIVATE THE QUICK MENU.
TIP
DURING AN MCU CONFERENCE, A
STATUS
LINE WILL PROVIDE
INFORMATION
ABOUT THE
CONFERENCE
. TO REMOVE THIS
STATUS
LINE, SELECT ‘UTILITIES’,
‘MCU STATUS LINE: OFF’.
NOTE
THIS SYSTEM HAS AS AN
OPTIONAL
BUILT-IN MCU,
M
ULTISITE, WHICH SUPPORTS UP
TO
3 VIDEO CALLS (4 SITES) AND
ONE
TELEPHONE CALL. THE
MULTISITE SUPPORTS BOTH
VOICE SWITCHED AND
CONTINUOUS PRESENCE MODE,
SEE SECTION ‘MULTISITE’.