What Features Are Supported On The Cisco Ip Phone; Feature Overview - Cisco 7960G Administration Manual

Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco IP Phone

What Features are Supported on the Cisco IP Phone

Models 7960G and 7940G?

Feature Overview

Cisco IP Phone Administration Guide for Cisco CallManager 4.0, Cisco IP Phones 7960G/7940G
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What Features are Supported on the Cisco IP Phone Models 7960G and 7940G?
Related Topics
Understanding Interactions with Other Cisco IP Telephony Products,
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page 2-2
Understanding the Phone Startup Process, page 2-4
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Network Configuration Menu Options, page 4-6
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The Cisco IP Phone models 7960G and 7940G function much like traditional
analog phones, allowing you to place and receive telephone calls. In addition to
traditional telephony features, the Cisco 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 1-7
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• Configuring Telephony Features, page 1-8
Configuring Network Features Using the Cisco IP Phone, page 1-9
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Providing Users with Feature Information, page 1-9
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Cisco IP Phones provide traditional telephony functionality, such as call
forwarding and transferring, redialing, speed dialing, conference calling, and
voice messaging system access. Cisco IP phones also provide a variety of other
features. For an overview of the telephony features that the Cisco IP Phone
supports and for tips on configuring them, see the
Features Using Cisco CallManager" section on page
Like other network devices, you must configure the Cisco IP Phones to prepare
them to access Cisco CallManager and the rest of the IP network. Using DHCP,
you have fewer settings to modify, but you can choose to assign a static IP also, if
your network requires it. For instructions on configuring the network settings on
the Cisco IP Phones, see
Cisco IP Phone."
Chapter 4, "Configuring Network Settings on the
"Configuring Telephony
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