Polycom SIP 3.1 manual Setting up Your System, Setting Up the Network Setting Up the Boot Server

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Setting up Your System

Your SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP SIP phone is designed to be used like a regular phone on a public switched telephone network (PSTN).

This chapter provides basic instructions for setting up your SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP phones. This chapter contains information on:

•Setting Up the Network

•Setting Up the Boot Server

•Deploying Phones From the Boot Server

•Upgrading SIP Application

Because of the large number of optional installations and configurations that are available, this chapter focuses on one particular way that the SIP application and the required external systems might initially be installed and configured in your network.

For more information on configuring your system, refer to Configuring Your System on page 4-1. For more information on the configuration files required for setting up your system, refer to Configuration Files on page A-1.

For installation and maintenance of Polycom SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP phones, the use of a boot server is strongly recommended. This allows for flexibility in installing, upgrading, maintaining, and configuring the phone. Configuration, log, and directory files are normally located on this server. Allowing the phone write access to the server is encouraged.

The phone is designed such that, if it cannot locate a boot server when it boots up, it will operate with internally saved parameters. This is useful for occasions when the boot server is not available, but is not intended to be used for long-term operation of the phones.

However, if you want to register a single SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP phone, refer to “Quick Tip 44011: Registering Standalone SoundPoint IP and SoundStation IP Phones“ at http://www.polycom.com/usa/en/support/voice/soundpoint_ip/VoIP_Technical_Bull etins_pub.html .

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