Multiple conference hosts – CounterPath X-Lite 3.0 User Guide User Manual
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Add to Contacts List
At any time during a call, users can click on the Call display to add the remote party to their Contacts list. For
information about the fields within the dialog box and about the Contacts list in general, see
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Multiple Conference Hosts
An X-Lite conference call may include up to three individuals—the conference host plus a participant on each
of the two available lines. Users can establish multiple conference hosts to “daisy chain” a conference call with
more than three participants using the X-Lite client.
For example, one person may host two other parties (to occupy all available lines) with one of those parties
being a conference of their own containing two other parties. This would bring the total number in the
aggregate conference call to four.
In theory, such “daisy chains” would allow for an unlimited number of parties in a conference call. In a real
scenario, however, 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 arrive.
X-Lite will switch automatically to the best codecs available as required (i.e. as participants are added). For
information about codecs, see “Options – Advanced – Audio Codecs” on
. If conference call audio is of
poor quality, the conference is probably beyond the limits of users’ very best codec—the conference is too big.