How to call in/call out conference

Conferences can accept incoming calls and initiate outgoing calls – learn how to call in/out a conference below.

If there's a conference with an appropriate rule and a bound phone number, you have to call this phone number to reach that conference.

The following code covers two cases:

1. You have a local conference and an incoming call is the initiation call (the first and only incoming call for the conference).
2. You have a standalone conference which receives calls only from SDK-based clients.

If it's a standalone conference which should be able to receive calls from PSTN/SIP, there must be an additional gateway scenario that accepts incoming calls and forwards them to a conference:

Conferences of both types can initiate calls and they do it exactly the same way. This is how you can call a phone number from a conference: