Introducing Your Cisco Ip Phone - Cisco 7960G Phone Manual

Once you connect the Cisco IP Phone to its power source, a startup process begins. After several
minutes, the phone's LCD displays a neutral "ready" screen. The details on your screen might vary,
but a ready screen typically displays the date and time, your extension number, and available softkeys.
Startup is complete and your phone is ready to use.
Softkeys point to feature options displayed along the bottom of your LCD screen. Softkeys
Tip
are flexible—they change depending on the status of your phone. For example, you can see
one set of softkey options when you pick up the handset, and another set when the phone is
not in use.
Headset Information
If you use a headset, connect it to the headset port. For information about headsets, see:
http://vxicorp.com/cisco.
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Introducing Your Cisco IP Phone

A Cisco IP Phone is a full-feature telephone that provides voice communication over an IP (Internet
Protocol) network. This phone functions much like a traditional analog phone, allowing you to place and
receive telephone calls. It also supports features that you have come to expect from a telephone—such
as speed dialing, redial, call transfer, conference calling, and voice message access.
Your Cisco IP Phone offers features that might surprise you. Because it is part of an IP network, your
Cisco IP Phone can provide not only telephony services, but data services too—including
up-to-the-minute information from the Internet through an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based
application. In short, your Cisco IP Phone provides a whole range of communication features that you
could not expect from a traditional telephone.
Why Does One Cisco IP Phone Behave Differently from Another?
The features exhibited by your Cisco IP Phone depend upon the call processing system (or "protocol")
that your phone uses.
To determine the protocol that your Cisco IP Phone uses, pick up the handset and then return the
handset to its cradle to reset the phone's LCD screen. The phone must be connected to a power source.
Observe your phone's LCD screen and compare it to the descriptions in Table 1. See the
"Documentation on the Web" section on page 11 for information about getting a user guide and other
documentation specific to your phone's protocol.
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