Cisco Systems 7906G, 7911G Feature Overview

Chapter1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone

What Features are Supported?

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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G and 7911G Administration Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager

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Feature Overview

Cisco Unified IP Phones provide core business features, such as call forwarding

and transferring, redialing, speed dialing, 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, see the “Telephony Features Available for the

Phone” section on page5-2 .

As with other network devices, you must configure CiscoUnified IP Phones to

prepare them to access Cisco Unified CallManager and the rest of the IP network.

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, and subnet

mask. For instructions on configuring the network settings on the CiscoUnified

IP Phones, see Chapter 4, “Configuring Settings on the CiscoUnified IP Phone.”

The Cisco Unified IP Phone can interact with other services and devices on your

IP network to provide enhanced functionality. For example, you can integrate the

Cisco Unified IP Phones with the corporate Lightweight Directory Access

Protocol 3 (LDAP3) standard directory to enable users to search for co-workers

contact information directly from their IP phones. Or, you can also use XML to

enable users to access information such as weather, stocks, quote of the day, and

other web-based information. For information about configuring such services,

see the “Configuring Corporate and Personal Directories” section on page5-13

and the “Setting Up Services” section on page5-15.

Finally, because the CiscoUnified 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.

See Chapter 7, “Viewing Security Information, Model Information, Status, and

Statistics on the CiscoUnified IP Phone,” for more information.