Creating
a New Conference
Participating in the Conference
Additional Conference Management Options
Security
Reports
System Administration
Interactive Conferences
Creating
a New Conference
Consortium lets you:
- Create
conference code (vanity codes can be used for quick recall)
- Create
a moderator code to extend access to participants
- Allow
dial-outs
- Select
start and end times
- Select
conference type (number of participants, port capacity,
recurring meetings)
- Select
conference participants/guests
- Select
connection mode (Blast Dial — System automatically calls
participants or
- Meet-Me
— Participants dial into conference)
- Allow
early arrivals to hold
- Ensure
forced conference end time
- Provide
attendance logging
- Select
minimum/maximum number of talkers
- Select
entry/exit tones
- Select
PIN entry option: standard, disallowed, listen only
- Confirm
conference details (all of the options selected)
- Notify
participants of conference and distribute meeting documents
via e-mail
Participating
in the Conference
Consortium lets you:
- Dial in
from a touch-tone phone, enter conference code and/or PIN
- Set up
voice prompts to greet and guide participants
- Provide
interactive touch tone options (mute/unmute, lock/unlock,
head count, revert to operator, dial-out, add participants,
Blast Dial, disconnect last number dialed, virtual gavel,
terminate conference call)
Additional
Conference Management Options
Consortium lets you:
- Help
participants access conference with multiple operator
support
- View
participants by name to mute or drop them from conference
via Moderator View Screen
- View
participant status (normal, muted, dropped from call) via
Moderator View Screen
Security
Entering a conference, Consortium requires:
- A
conference code or PIN (PIN can be changed at any time for
increased security)
During a
conference, Consortium provides:
- Audio
tones to indicate arrival/departure of participants
- Announcement
of number of participants in conference
- Moderator
with ability to lock conference to prevent new/late
participants from entering
- Moderator
with ability to disconnect last participant added to
conference via dial-out feature
- On-screen
monitoring of conference participants via Moderator View
Screen
Reports
Consortium provides:
- View of
all details of conference being scheduled before confirming
reservation
- Time
log of each participant or channel per conference; can be
automatically saved to disk at end of conference
- Lists
of all scheduled conferences
- Lists
of all conferences scheduled for specific timeframe
- Reports
available in common ASCII formats
System
Administration
Consortium provides:
- Real-time
System Administration functions
- Participant
database entries defined to level of conference interaction
for each user (Chairperson, Standard, or Listen Only) as
well as system access privileges (Conference Reservation and
Participant Administration, Voice Message Management and
System Administration)
- Operators
assigned from a list of available participants with
Conference Reservation privileges
- Real-time
viewing of status of all ports in system
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Monitoring of multiple conferences
- An
activity status for each conference
- Reports
of conference details and schedules
- Defaults
for conference creation and touch tone codes
- Unlimited
number and length of customizable voice prompts
- Ability
to remotely configure, option and troubleshoot system
hardware components, application software, and network
interfaces
- Alarms
to alert users of potential problems which may affect system
operation
Interactive
Conferences
Consortium:
- Automatically
maintains audio quality even as additional callers join
through per port: Dedicated echo cancellation and dynamic
port adaptation Automatic gain control and voice level
equalization via patented Sculptured Sound® voice software
- Optimizes
full duplex audio by selecting maximum number of
simultaneous talkers
- Eliminates
"dead silence" by selecting minimum number of
talkers
- Eliminates
intrusive background noise (airports, railway stations, poor
cellular connections) through muting ports
- Supports
touch-tone conference access and on-conference control
simultaneously, across all ports
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