What Features Are Supported On The Cisco Unified Ip Phones 7970G/7971G-Ge; Feature Overview - Cisco 7970G Administration Manual

Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone
What Features are Supported on the Cisco
Unified IP Phones 7970G/7971G-GE?

Feature Overview

Cisco Unified IP Phone Administration Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.1 (SIP), Cisco Unified IP Phones
OL-11524-01

What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phones 7970G/7971G-GE?

The Cisco Unified IP Phone functions much like a digital business phone,
allowing you to place and receive telephone calls. In addition to traditional
telephony features, the Cisco Unified IP Phone includes features that enable you
to administer and monitor the phone as a network device.
This section covers the following topics:
Feature Overview, page 1-9
•
Configuring Telephony Features, page 1-10
•
Configuring Network Parameters Using the Cisco Unified IP Phone,
•
page 1-11
Providing Users with Feature Information, page 1-11
•
Cisco Unified IP Phones provide traditional telephony functionality, such as call
forwarding and transferring, redialing, speed dialing, conference calling, and
voice messaging system access. Cisco Unified IP phones also provide a variety of
other features. For an overview of the telephony features that the
Cisco Unified IP Phone supports, see the
Phone" section on page
As with other network devices, you must configure Cisco Unified IP Phones to
prepare them to access Cisco Unified CallManager and the rest of the IP network.
By using DHCP, you have fewer settings to configure on a phone, but can
manually configure an IP address, TFTP server, and subnet mask if your network
requires it. For instructions on configuring the network settings on the
Cisco Unified IP Phones, see
Cisco Unified IP Phone."
The Cisco Unified IP Phone can interact with other services and devices on your
IP network to provide enhanced functionality. For example, you can integrate the
Cisco Unified IP Phones with the corporate Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol 3 (LDAP3) standard directory to enable users to search for co-workers
contact information directly from their IP phones. You can also use XML to
enable users to access information such as weather, stocks, quote of the day, and
"Telephony Features Available for the
5-2.
Chapter 4, "Configuring Settings on the
1-9