CME ad-hoc conferencing

[mbell]

I understand that CME only supports 3-way conferencing. Where is the conferencing actually performed? I have a 2801 with a PVDM2-8 and have configured 8 channels on a fractional PRI. I do not have any spare DSP resources available on the router and have not configured conferencing yet I can do a 3-way conference from my IP Communicator phone. My question is, where is the conferencing actually performed? Is it performed on the phones utilizing the built-in conference bridge?

[Chris Deren]

CME does not use the hardware conferencing, it only uses software conference bridge, bascially the phone itself is the conf bridge, hence only 3 participants.

Hardware resources on CME can only be used for voice channels and transcoding.

HTH,

Chris