CounterPath eyeBeam 1.5 User Guide for Windows - Manual (Page 19)

CounterPath eyeBeam 1.5 for Windows
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Multiple Conference Hosts
An eyeBeam conference call may include up to seven individuals—the conference host plus a participant on
each of the six lines. You can establish multiple conference hosts in order to “daisy chain” together a
conference call with more than seven participants.
For example, one person may host six other parties (to occupy all of its available lines) with one of those parties
being a conference of their own containing five other parties. This would bring the total number in the
aggregate conference call to twelve.
In theory, such “daisy chains” would allow for an unlimited number of parties in a conference call. However, in
a real scenario, the number of participants is limited by bandwidth constraints at each of the conference host’s
computers, causing audio quality to degrade more and more as new participants are added.
eyeBeam will automatically switch to the best codecs available, as required (as participants are added). (For
information on codecs, see “Options – Advanced – Audio Codecs” on page 35.) If the audio on the conference
call is of poor quality, then your conference is probably beyond the limits of your very best codec: the
conference is too big.