[comp.dcom.telecom] Conference Bridge

jraymond@bbn.com (Jayson Raymond) (07/24/90)

	I am hoping to tap from the invaluable knowledge source of
this list, and would appreciate any leads some one could provide me
with. I am in need of a conference bridge or similar device for an
information provider service that will allow me to do the following.

	Given about 32 simultaneous callers, I would like to
dynamically select between who speaks to who, and allow multiple
people to converse at the same time. Dynamically reconfigurable so
that ideally it could be one big 32 caller conference or, while all
callers are still online, be reconfigured for as many as 16 two party
conversations, or any configuration inbetween. Ideally this would also
be PC based, and hopefully easily interfaceable to call processing
boards by Natural MicroSystems, Dialogic, or others.

	The ideal system would be as described above, but if I have to
make compromises in the system design, I will. I currently am
contemplating utilizing the Dialogic AMX81 to allow for only one on
one conversations, if I can't find something better. The number of
simultaneous callers is flexible, hopefully expandable from 4 to 32 or
so.

	Thank you in advance for any info you may be able to provide.

Jayson

jraymond@bbn.com