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Chapter
What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 6921, 6941, and 6961?
Related Topics
Understanding Interactions with Other Cisco Unified IP Telephony Products, page 2-1
Understanding the Phone Startup Process, page 2-7
Network Setup Menu, page 4-4
What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 6921, 6941, and 6961?
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 1-13
Configuring Telephony Features, page 1-13
Configuring Network Parameters Using the Cisco Unified IP Phone, page 1-14
Providing Users with Feature Information, page 1-14
Transport Layer Security
(TLS) TLS is a standard protocol for securing
and authenticating communications. When security is implemented, Cisco
Unified IP Phones use the TLS protocol when
securely registering with Cisco Unified CM.
For more information, refer to the Cisco Unified
Communications Manager Security Guide.
Trivial File Transfer
Protocol (TFTP) TFTP allows you to transfer files over the
network.
On the Cisco Unified IP Phone, TFTP
enables you to obtain a configuration file
specific to the phone type.
TFTP requires a TFTP server in your network,
which can be automatically identified from the
DHCP server. If you want a phone to use a TFTP
server other than the one specified by the DHCP
server, you must manually assign the IP address of
the TFTP server by using the Network Setup menu
on the phone.
For more information, go to the Cisco TFTP chapter
in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager
System Guide.
User Datagram Protocol
(UDP) UDP is a connectionless messaging
protocol for delivery of data packets. Cisco Unified IP Phones transmit and receive RTP
streams, which utilize UDP.
Table 1-4 Supported Networking Protocols on the Cisco Unified IP Phone (continued)
Networking Protocol Purpose Usage Notes