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Overview
Quick Conference (QC) is a simple, flexible and scalable meet-me audio conferencing solution for small, medium or large-sized businesses. QC offers a cost-effective, premises-based alternative to hosted conferencing services — encouraging businesses to conduct more conferences and take advantage of increased collaboration opportunities among employees, customers and partners. QC can also be deployed as a managed or hosted service, residing both inside and outside the enterprise network.
Highlights for Users
- Feature Rich - Quick Conference offers a wide range of audio conferencing capabilities normally associated with high-end audio conferencing solutions and hosted services, including: moderator and administrator web dashboard (for conference control and bridge creation), customizable music on hold, bridge security features, loudest speaker display, dial-out capability, high-definition recording, scheduling and reporting.
- Simple - QC is as easy to access as dialing an extension — all you need is a telephone number, and a conference ID to create or participate in a conference call. QC encourages greater conferencing use and promotes team productivity and decision making.
- Rapid Setup and Management - Reservation-less, SIP-based conferences can accommodate a meeting of a dozen participants in a matter of seconds. On-demand bridges are dynamically created, while reserved bridges only take a minute to configure via telephone or our intuitive web interface. QC does not need to be setup in advance or limited to specific individuals.
Highlights for Enterprise
- Cost effective - Quick Conference eliminates costly per-minute per person audio port surcharges and monthly subscription fees. With QC, your audio conferencing becomes cost effective to run and maintain — accelerating payback to a matter of months. On-demand audio conferencing has emerged as one of the most compelling ways to improve productivity, control costs, streamline business processes and collaborate more efficiently.
- Open, standards-based - QC compliments any PBX through SIP trunking or a SIP/TDM gateway. QC uses a simplified SIP message interface (with media relay) to reduce inter-operability issues, and can be installed on a standard, cost-effective hardware platform running Linux. QC offers flexibile deployment options and be located on-premisis, or offsite by a managed Service Provider.
- Secure and Scalable - QC offers a range of security features to ensure that the privacy and integrity of a conference call is maintained at all times — including (Optional) System Access Code, Bridge Reservation PIN, Participant PIN and conference locking capability. QC cost-effectively scales from 10 to 200+ ports.
Features
Take your conferencing to the next level with our highly flexible and cost effective Quick Conference Application. Quick Conference is deployed stand-alone or integrated with the Edge Application Server. With Quick Conference, your audio conferencing becomes cost effective to run and maintain accelerating payback to a matter of months.
Feature Highlights
- Scalable, meet-me style, SIP conference server
- VoIP solution with SIP signaling
- Software-based implementation (no custom hardware)
- Support for 200+ audio conferencing ports on a single server (scalable to larger capacity across multiple servers)
- Reserved and unreserved bridge numbers
- Moderated or unsupervised conferences
- Participant name record, announcement and roll call
- Participant entry and exit notification
- Dial in conferencing and click to dial out from bridge to individual or group
Web-based, Moderator Dashboard
- Conference management options are available to moderators through a web based Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Add participant, dial-out from GUI (click to dial out from bridge to individual or group)
- Real time status display (including current speaker) via GUI ‘Speech Bubble’/Loudest Speaker
- Click to mute, un-mute participants (whisper announcement to muted/un-muted participants)
- Audio (mute/un-mute)
- Lock / unlock conference call
- Click to annotate and/or record conference
Conference Customization Features
- Recordable, custom greetings for moderator controlled calls (default also available)
- Customized music on hold (choice of music or comfort
- tones for participants that are waiting for the conference call to begin)
- Configurable number of bridge digits
- Bilingual greetings
Administration and Reporting Features
- Web-based conference statistics reports
- Exportable conference statistics reports
- Report filters (time increments and transaction events)
- Personal bridge statistics reports for Moderators (web-based and exportable)
- Emailed threshold alerts (i.e. 80% system capacity limit, denial of service, peak usage)
- Database save and restore function (i.e. bridge number configurations, recordings)
Requirements
| Min. number of audio channels | 10 |
|---|---|
| Max. number of audio channels | 200+ on a single server |
| Supported Languages | English (NA), English (UK), French (Canadian), French (European), Dutch, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (European), Italian, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic. |
| Interface | SIP (RFC 3261 and related), BRI/PRI Gateway direct to ITSP. |
| Max. number of concurrent calls | 1 or 2 ports x 10 / 100 / 1000 |
| User interface | TUI or GUI (GUI available to moderators and administrators) |
Minimum Server Hardware Requirements
| CPU | Refer to Engineering Guidelines |
|---|---|
| RAM | 512 MB (minimum) |
| CD-ROM | Yes |
| Hard Drive | The choice of server hardware depends entirely on the anticipated system load. Refer to Engineering Guidelines for recommended CPU guidelines. |
Minimum Server Software Requirements
| Edge Application Server (EAS) | Release 3.3 or greater approved release |
|---|---|
| SME (contribs.org) | Release 7.2 (Refer to Engineering Guideline for other approved releases) |
Pricing
Quick Conference Pricing is contingent upon the level of channel partner certification or OEM distribution agreement.
To enquire about this product, please email sales@counterpath.com and a CounterPath sales representative will contact you with more information.