Cisco Systems 6901 What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901 and 6911?

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Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901 and 6911 Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.5 (SCCP and SIP)

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Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone

What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901 and 6911?

What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901 and 6911?

Cisco Unified IP Phones function much like a digital business phone, allowing you to place and receive

phone calls. In addition to traditional telephony features, the Cisco Unified IP Phone includes features

that enable you to administer and monitor the phone as a network device.

This section includes the following topics:

• Feature Overview, page 1-9

• Configuring Telephony Features, page 1-9

• Configuring Network Parameters Using the Cisco Unified IP Phone, page 1-10

• Providing Users with Feature Information, page 1-10

Cisco Unified IP Phones provide traditional telephony functionality, such as call forwarding and

transferring, redialing, conference calling, and voice messaging system access. Cisco Unified IP phones

also provide a variety of other features. For an overview of the telephony features that the

Cisco Unified IP Phone supports and for tips on configuring them, see the “Telephony Features

Available for the Cisco Unified IP Phone” section on page 5-1.

As with other network devices, you must configure Cisco Unified IP Phones to prepare them to access

Cisco Unified Communications Manager and the rest of the IP network. By using DHCP, you have fewer

settings to configure on a phone, but if your network requires it, you can manually configure an IP

address, TFTP server, subnet information, and so on. For instructions on configuring the network

settings on the Cisco Unified IP Phones, see Chapter 4, “Configuring Settings on the Cisco Unified IP

Phone.”

Finally, because the Cisco Unified IP Phone is a network device, you can obtain detailed status

information from it directly. This information can assist you with troubleshooting any problems users

might encounter when using their IP phones.

You can modify additional settings for the Cisco Unified IP Phone from Cisco Unified Communications

Manager Administration. Use Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration to set up phone

registration criteria and calling search spaces, among other tasks. See the “Telephony Features Available

for the Cisco Unified IP Phone” section on page 5-1 and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager

documentation for additional information.