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Configuring Voice Interfaces
This chapter describes how to configure voice interfaces for the Catalyst 4500 series switches.
This chapter includes the following major sections:
About Voice Interfaces, page 38-1
Configuring a Port to Connect to a Cisco 7960 IP Phone, page 38-3
Configuring Voice Ports for Voice and Data Traffic, page 38-3
Overriding the CoS Priority of Incoming Frames, page 38-5
Configuring Power, page 38-5
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the switch commands used in this chapter, see the Cisco
Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Command Reference and related publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/index.html
If the command is not found in the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Command Reference, you can locate it in the
larger Cisco IOS library. Refer to the Cisco IOS Command Reference and related publications at this
location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/index.html

About Voice Interfaces

Catalyst 4500 series switches can connect to a Cisco 7960 IP Phone and carry IP voice traffic. If
necessary, the switch can supply electrical power to the circuit connecting it to the Cisco 7960 IP Phone.
Because the sound quality of an IP telephone call can deteriorate if the data is unevenly sent, the switch
uses quality of service (QoS) based on IEEE 802.1p class of service (CoS). QoS uses classification and
scheduling to transmit network traffic from the switch in a predictable manner. See Chapter 37,
“Configuring Quality of Service,” for more information on QoS.
You can configure the Cisco 7960 IP Phone to forward traffic with an 802.1p priority. You can use the
CLI to configure a Catalyst 4500 series switch to honor or ignore a traffic priority assigned by a
Cisco 7960 IP Phone.