Conference Calls, Web Meetings and Video Conferencing

A conference room in the phone system

A conference bridge is a number people dial to join the same call – from a desk phone, a cell phone or a landline anywhere. You can have a dedicated bridge for a team that meets every week, or set one up for a single meeting with its own PIN. Bridges are part of the Professional plan.

Web and video meetings

When you need to see each other or share a screen, use web and video conferencing. You can reach it from the portal of your phone system, log in with your phone system username, or let guests join from a browser with the meeting ID or link. There are two kinds of sessions:

• Meetings – for a single session. When the host ends it, it is over.
• Rooms – persistent, like a meeting room that is always there for a team.

Participants can join from an invitation email, a direct link, by entering the meeting ID or by picking an active meeting. Once in, each person chooses camera, microphone and screen sharing, and can join the audio from the computer or have the system call their phone.

Meeting types for different jobs

• Interactive meeting – everyone can present and, with permission, control the shared screen. Good for brainstorming and working sessions.
• HD video conference – face-to-face meetings in high definition.
• Webinar – attendees watch your presentation in any browser, even on a smart TV, without installing anything.
• Remote support – see and control a participant's computer to help them.

During a meeting you can switch presenters, hand over control, chat with everyone or with selected people (and save the chat), and record the session with screen and voice – handy for training. Recordings can be converted to MP4 video.

Phone and web in one meeting

Each web meeting has a phone conference bridge attached, so people on a cell phone or a desk phone can join the audio while the others watch the screen. Meetings can be protected with a password and, for internal meetings, limited to participants from your own network. We set up the bridges and show your team how to host.