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Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone

What Networking Protocols are Used?

Table 1-4	Supported Networking Protocols on the Cisco Unified IP Phone (continued)
Networking Protocol		Purpose	Usage Notes
Hypertext Transfer		HTTP is the standard way of transferring	Cisco Unified IP Phones use HTTP for the XML
Protocol (HTTP)		information and moving documents across	services and for troubleshooting purposes
		the Internet and the web.
Hypertext Transfer		Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure	Web applications with both HTTP and HTTPS
Protocol Secure (HTTPS)		(HTTPS) is a combination of the	support have two URLs configured. Cisco Unified
		Hypertext Transfer Protocol with the	IP Phones that support HTTPS choose the HTTPS
		SSL/TLS protocol to provide encryption	URL.
		and secure identification of servers.
IEEE 802.1X		The IEEE 802.1X standard defines a	The Cisco Unified IP Phone implements the IEEE
		client-server-based access control and	802.1X standard by providing support for the
		authentication protocol that restricts	following authentication methods: EAP-FAST,
		unauthorized clients from connecting to a	EAP-TLS, and EAP-MD5.
		LAN through publicly accessible ports.	When 802.1X authentication is enabled on the
		Until the client is authenticated, 802.1X	phone, you should disable the PC port and voice
		access control allows only Extensible	VLAN. Refer to the “Supporting 802.1X
		Authentication Protocol over LAN	Authentication on Cisco Unified IP Phones” section
		(EAPOL) traffic through the port to which	on page 1-22for additional information.
		the client is connected. After
		authentication is successful, normal traffic
		can pass through the port.
IEEE 802.11a/b/g		The IEEE 802.11 standard specifies how	(Cisco Unified IP Phone 9971 only) The 802.11
		devices communication over a wireless	interface is a deployment option for cases when
		local area network (WLAN).	Ethernet cabling is unavailable or undesirable.
		802.11a operates at the 5 GHz band and
		802.11b and 802.11g operate at the 2.4
		GHz band
Internet Protocol (IP)		IP is a messaging protocol that addresses	To communicate using IP, network devices must
		and sends packets across the network.	have an assigned IP address, subnet, and gateway.
			IP addresses, subnets, and gateways identifications
			are automatically assigned if you are using the
			Cisco Unified IP Phone with Dynamic Host
			Configuration Protocol (DHCP). If you are not
			using DHCP, you must manually assign these
			properties to each phone locally.
Link Layer Discovery		LLDP is a standardized network discovery	The Cisco Unified IP Phone supports LLDP on the
Protocol (LLDP)		protocol (similar to CDP) that is supported	PC port.
		on some Cisco and third-party devices.

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