Cisco Systems 7970G manual Feature Overview

Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone

What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phones 7970G/7971G-GE?

What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phones 7970G/7971G-GE?

The Cisco Unified IP Phone functions much like a digital business phone, allowing you to place and receive telephone 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 covers the following topics:

•Feature Overview, page 1-9

•Configuring Telephony Features, page 1-10

•Configuring Network Parameters Using the Cisco Unified IP Phone, page 1-11

•Providing Users with Feature Information, page 1-11

Feature Overview

Cisco Unified IP Phones provide traditional telephony functionality, 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 page 5-2.

As with other network devices, you must configure Cisco Unified IP Phones to prepare them to access Cisco Unified CallManager and the rest of the IP network. By using DHCP, you have fewer settings to configure on a phone, but can manually configure an IP address, TFTP server, and subnet mask if your network requires it. For instructions on configuring the network settings on the

Cisco Unified IP Phones, see Chapter 4, “Configuring Settings on the Cisco Unified 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. You can also use XML to enable users to access information such as weather, stocks, quote of the day, and

Cisco Unified IP Phone Administration Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.1 (SIP), Cisco Unified IP Phones

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