Conferencing Calls with Analog Station?

[mikej97204]

We have a number of analog stations that currently are used to send calls to. The phone type I'm using is 6210 although they aren't all that type. Is it possible to set up a analog station so that the person at that phone can receive a call and then dial out and conference on another call? Of course it's easy with the digital 6416 phones we have. But now I have a need to be able to do that from some analog stations as well. I have a G3r ver 9.05.

Thanks

 

[vaoldschl]

Analog phones can generally conference three parties (the phone itself + 2) using the switch hook. The user would receive the first call, quickly depress the switch hook to retrieve dial tone, dial the second number and then quickly depress the switch hook to connect all parties. My brain is fried from other issues I am having so I don't remember whether or not there is a y/n field in system-parameters features that controls this or not but you might do a quick check of that to be sure.

 

[mikej97204]

Thanks, Mntneer. I will give it a try when I'm at one of the analog stations.

Mike

 

[AvayaTier3]

A user with a single-line telephone can create a conference with as many as
three participants.
Each of these three participants can then add another participant. Thus, a user
who has a single-line telephone can create a conference call with as many as six
participants.


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bsh

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[btrain08]

So an analog polycom can only have a total of 3 participants unlike the digital with 6?

 

[AvayaTier3]

So, btrain.... look up and read that last thread again and see if you need to ask this question.

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bsh

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[lopes1211]

You can also establish a 6 party conference on a digital set and then transfer the conference to an analog Polycom.

-CL

 

[vaoldschl]

AvayaTier3, have you ever honestly tried to explain how to create a 6 party conference on an analog telephone to your typical corporate executive conference room user? I've had better luck getting my doberman's to carry a parasol and politely sip their tea. If that size conference is required lopes' solution and a helpful assistant win the prize every time.

 

[AvayaTier3]

And if you establish a 6 party conference on a digital set, how are you going to get the 7th to complete a transfer?


A great teacher, does not provide answers, but methods to teach others "How and where to find the answers"

bsh

35 years Bell, AT&T, Lucent, Avaya
Tier 3 for 25 years and counting

http://bshtele.com

 

[vaoldschl]

You're not conferencing a seventh you're transferring using an idle line appearance. But you may be right; it may restrict you to five. I haven't had to do it in decades.

 

[AvayaTier3]

A user with a single-line telephone can create a conference with as many asthree participants.Each of these three participants can then add another participant. Thus, a userwho has a single-line telephone can create a conference call with as many as sixparticipants.

This came out of Feature Description for Conference.


A great teacher, does not provide answers, but methods to teach others "How and where to find the answers"

bsh

35 years Bell, AT&T, Lucent, Avaya
Tier 3 for 25 years and counting

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[vaoldschl]

I'm not going to get into a contest on who knows more about conferencing, nor am I disputing that a single line telephone can participate in a six party conference. All I asked was if you had ever tried to instruct someone who is typically not telephone savvy on setting up that type of conference. Or, more correctly, instructed all three parties required in how to set up that type of conference. Simple question.

Also, after expending half a Twinkie's worth of brain power I deduced that you could indeed create a six party conference on a digital set and then transfer the call into a single line telephone because as soon as you hit that transfer button you are placing the other five parties on hold, grabbing an idle line and sending the five parties to the new sixth party analog phone as you yourself drop off the call. Presto, chango, easy six party conference set up by an assistant who now looks like Einstein to the folks in the conference room.

Ironically none of this is really relevant to the question mikej asked because he only needed to create a three party conference according to his scenario.