Setting Up Your System - Polycom 1725-11530-310 Administrator's Manual

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