Dial-in Conference

The PBX Centre application includes the Conference Centre functionality.

To connect to the Conference Centre, use the PBX Centre function 60 by dialing 760.

Follow the menu to create a Conference. The application will tell you the PIN for the newly created Conference and it will E-mail this PIN to your Octopus IP-PBX Account.

If you create an "open" conference, then anyone who knows the Conference PIN can start the Conference. Otherwise, the E-mail sent to you will contain the Leader PIN, and only you can start this Conference.

To remove a Conference, connect to the Conference Centre and use its main menu to select the remove function.

To start a Conference, or to join a Conference created by someone else, connect to the Conference Centre. Use its main menu to select the "join conference" function, then provide the Conference PIN.

If you are the person who has created the selected Conference, the Conference will be started and you will become the Conference Host. Otherwise you will join the Conference as a participant.

If the PBX Centre Account is called using any address starting with the symbols conference, the Conference Centre function is started. The conference Alias of your pbx Account:

• allows remote users to connect to your Conference Centre by using the sip:conference@your.domain.name address.
• allows PSTN callers to connect to your Conference Centre by dialing in, connecting to your PBX Center Auto-Attendant application, and selecting the "join a conference" option.

When your Conference Centre receives a call from a user outside your Domain, the Centre does not present its main menu: it immediately tells the caller to enter the Conference PIN. The caller than joins the conference as a participant, or starts it and becomes the Conference Host, if this is an "open" Conference, and it has not been started yet.

You may need to start your Conference when your call cannot be authenticated (for example, you are calling into your system via a PSTN gateway).

The Conference Centre will ask you for the Conference PIN.

Enter the Conference PIN and the application will inform you that the Conference has not been started yet.

Press the star (*) key and enter your Leader PIN. The Conference will be started and you will become its Conference Host.

The PBX Center function 61 allows you to bypass the main menu: dial 761 and proceed by entering the Conference PIN.