Conference Call

[PeoplesBKTech]

How many people can conference 6 people on there own line? what is the max?

Example 10 people each conf 6 people that would be 10 different conferences of 6 people. Is there a max?

 

[trvlr1]

the number of conference cards in the system would limit the amount of callers that can be conferenced. Also don't know if you have tried it, but putting 6 peaple in a conference often gives poor results, so if you were trying to form a chain to get 50 to 60 people on one conference, that is not the way to go.

 

[GHTROUT]

If you need to bridge a lot of internal people on a daily call, as is often required in investment banking, you can just add a DN to 29 phones and have 29 people all press the line. Then one of them can conference in a second DN - it too having its own 29 appearances - now you have 58. (note each of the DNs will need an analog TN with the same DN to release the privacy...hence only 29 DN keys.

Done this and seen it used daily for years. However, we had a two conference loops per shelf, just because we could


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