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VLANs and Polycom Desktop IP Telephones White Paper Stephen Sprunk, Channel Systems Engineer October 2004 ® ® SoundPoint...
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Purpose ® ® This whitepaper describes the mechanism for using multiple VLANs with Polycom SoundPoint telephones as well as several cases for why they might be used. Security Benefits of using VLANs By segregating IP phones into their own VLAN(s), security filters can be implemented in the network to block all unnecessary traffic to or from those devices.
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VLAN. Manual Configuration of VLAN ID In the local Polycom SoundPoint IP’s Network Settings menu, there is a field called “VLAN ID”; this allows configuration of the particular VLAN that the phone should be a member of. It defaults to null, which means that the phone will be on the native VLAN specified in the Ethernet switch.
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