Chapter

Telephony Features Available for the Cisco Unified IP Phone

For information about using most of these features on the phone, refer to Cisco Unified IP Phone 6921, 6941, and 6961 User Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.5.

Note Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration also provides several service parameters that you can use to configure various telephony functions. For more information on accessing and configuring service parameters, refer to Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration Guide.

For more information on the functions of a service, select the name of the parameter or the question mark help button in the Service Parameter Configuration window.

Table 5-1

Telephony Features for the Cisco Unified IP Phone

 

 

 

 

 

Feature

 

Description

Configuration Reference

 

 

 

Abbreviated dialing

Allows users to speed dial a phone number by

For more information, see the following:

 

 

entering an assigned index code (1-99) on the

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

phone keypad.

 

 

Administration Guide, Cisco Unified IP

 

 

 

 

 

Note You can use Abbreviated Dialing while

Phone Configuration.

 

 

on-hook or off-hook.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

 

 

 

Users assign index codes from the User Options

System Guide, Cisco Unified IP Phone.

 

 

 

 

 

web pages.

 

 

 

 

 

Agent Greeting

 

Allows an agent to create and update a prerecorded

For more information, see the following:

 

 

greeting that plays at the beginning of a call, such

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

as a customer call, before the agent begins the

 

 

Features and Services Guide, Barge and

 

 

conversation with the caller. The agent can

 

 

Privacy.

 

 

prerecord a single greeting or multiple ones as

 

 

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

 

 

needed.

 

 

When a customer calls, both the agent and the

System Guide, Cisco Unified IP Phone.

 

 

 

 

 

customer hear the prerecorded greeting. The agent

 

 

 

can remain on mute until the greeting ends or

 

 

 

answer the call over the greeting.

 

 

 

All codecs supported for the phone are supported

 

 

 

for Agent Greeting calls.

 

 

 

To enable Agent Greeting in the Cisco Unified CM

 

 

 

Administration application, choose Device >

 

 

 

Phone, locate the IP Phone that you want to

 

 

 

configure. Scroll to the Device Information Layout

 

 

 

pane and set Built In Bridge to On or Default.

 

 

 

If Built In Bridge is set to Default, in the

 

 

 

Cisco Unified CM Administration application,

 

 

 

choose System > Service Parameter and select

 

 

 

the appropriate Server and Service. Scroll to the

 

 

 

Clusterwide Parameters (Device - Phone) pane and

 

 

 

set Builtin Bridge Enable to On.

 

 

 

 

 

Any Call Pickup

 

Allows users to pick up a call on any line in their

For more information, see the Cisco Unified

 

 

call pickup group, regardless of how the call was

Communications Manager Features and

 

 

routed to the phone.

Services Guide, “Call Pickup Configuration.”

 

 

 

 

Cisco Unified IP Phone 6921, 6941, 6945, and 6961 Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.5 (SCCP and SIP)

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