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Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone
What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901 and 6911?
What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified
IP Phone 6901 and 6911?
Cisco Unified IP Phones function much like a digital business phone, allowing you to place and receive
phone 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 includes the following topics:
•
Feature Overview, page 1-9
•
Configuring Telephony Features, page 1-9
•
Configuring Network Parameters Using the Cisco Unified IP Phone, page 1-10
•
Providing Users with Feature Information, page 1-10
Feature Overview
Cisco Unified IP Phones provide traditional telephony functionality, such as call forwarding and
transferring, redialing, 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 and for tips on configuring them, see the
“Telephony Features
Available for the Cisco Unified IP Phone” section on page 5-1
.
As with other network devices, you must configure Cisco Unified IP Phones to prepare them to access
Cisco Unified Communications Manager and the rest of the IP network. By using DHCP, you have fewer
settings to configure on a phone, but if your network requires it, you can manually configure an IP
address, TFTP server, subnet information, and so on. For instructions on configuring the network
settings on the Cisco Unified IP Phones, see
Chapter 4, “Configuring Settings on the Cisco Unified IP
Phone.”
Finally, because the Cisco Unified IP Phone is a network device, you can obtain detailed status
information from it directly. This information can assist you with troubleshooting any problems users
might encounter when using their IP Phones.
Related Topics
•
Configuring Settings on the Cisco Unified IP Phone, page 4-1
•
Configuring Features, Templates, Services, and Users, page 5-1
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Troubleshooting and Maintenance, page 7-1
Configuring Telephony Features
You can modify additional settings for the Cisco Unified IP Phone from Cisco Unified Communications
Manager. Use Cisco Unified Communications Manager to set up phone registration criteria and calling
search spaces, among other tasks. See the
“Telephony Features Available for the Cisco
Unified IP Phone” section on page 5-1
and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager documentation
for additional information.
