Specifying top and local zones for Hybrid Meetings
Organizations can deploy a two-tier meeting architecture with defined top and local meeting zones. Once top and local zones are enabled, hybrid meetings will automatically be hosted within the designated top meeting Zone, while participants will connect to MMRs within their local meeting zone. This allows organizations to optimize network connectivity and performance for meetings hosted over multiple physical locations.
For example, in situations where an organization has a headquarters and smaller branch offices, the headquarters would be designated as the top zone and the branch offices as local zones. With this setup, network usage between locations would be minimized to communication between the top and local MMRs.
Once this setting is enabled, the Users can only use the specified zones option will not be available under the Hybrid services for meeting/webinar hosts and participants setting.
Requirements for specifying top zones when hosting meetings
Note: Contact Zoom to have this feature enabled
How to specify meeting zones when hosting meetings
Account
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
- In the navigation menu, click Account Management, then Account Settings.
- Click the Meeting tab.
- Under In Meeting (Advanced), search for the Hybrid services for meeting/webinar hosts and participants setting.
- Under Advanced, enable or disable the following settings:
- Specify top zone for hosting meetings: Allows the selection of the meeting zone that will be utilized as the top zone when hosting a meeting.
- Specify local zone for joining meetings: Allows the selection of meeting zones that will be designated as subzones to the top zone.
Group
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
- In the navigation menu, click User Management, then Groups.
- Click the applicable group name from the list.
- Click the Meeting tab.
- Under In Meeting (Advanced), search for the Hybrid services for meeting/webinar hosts and participants setting.
- Under Advanced, enable or disable the following settings:
- Specify top zone for hosting meetings: Allows the selection of the meeting zone that will be utilized as the top zone when hosting a meeting.
- Specify local zone for joining meetings: Allows the selection of meeting zones that will be designated as local (sub) zones to the top zone.