Administrator’s Guide Addendum for the SoundPoint IP 450

Note

For more information on the SoundPoint IP 450 desktop phone, refer to the User

 

Guide at http://www.polycom.com/support/voip/ .

 

 

New or Changed Features

Distribution Zip File

As well as the sip.ld file in the archive, there is a separate file for the

SoundPoint IP 450 phone called 2345-12450-001.sip.ld .

Electronic Hookswitch

The SoundPoint IP 450 phone can be configured to use the electronic hookswitch. For more information, refer to “Technical Bulletin 35150: Using an Electronic Hookswitch with SountPoint IP Phones“ at http://www.polycom.com/support/voip/.

Graphic Display Backgrounds

Like the SoundPoint IP 550, 560, 650, and 670 phones, you can select the pictures or designs displayed on the background. You can also select the label colors for the soft key and link key labels. Both BMP and JPEG files are supported. A default picture is displayed when the phone starts up the first time.

Users can select which background and label color appears on their individual phones.

Configuration changes can be performed centrally at the boot server:

Central

Configuration file:

Specify which background will be displayed.

(boot server)

sip.cfg

For more information, refer to Background <bg/> on page 1-6.

 

 

 

Multilingual User Interface

Support for major western European languages is included and additional languages can be easily added. Support for Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) is also included and will display on the SoundPoint IP 450’s higher resolution display. Downloadable fonts are supported on the SoundStation IP 450.

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Polycom SIP 3.1 manual New or Changed Features, Distribution Zip File, Electronic Hookswitch Graphic Display Backgrounds

SIP 3.1 specifications

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