Cisco SPA IP Phone Field Reference
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Cisco Small Business SPA300 Series, SPA500 Series, and WIP310 IP Phone Administration Guide
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Power Settings
Internet Connection Type
Parameter
Description
PoE Power Required
Specifies the PoE power setting: Normal (default)
or Maximum.
When one or more attendant consoles are
attached to the phone, use
Maximum
to advertise
to a PoE switch that the phone will consume up to
12 watts.
When no attendant consoles are attached, use
Minimum
to advertise a required power budget
of 6.5 watts.
This parameter is not applicable to Cisco SPA301
or SPA303 as they do not have Cisco Attendant
Console support.
Parameter
Description
Connection Type
Choose the type of internet connection:
•
DHCP
•
Static IP
•
PPPoE (not applicable to
Cisco WIP310
)
Use Backup IP
(Cisco SPA 30X and
Cisco SPA5XX only)
When this field is set to
yes
, the IP phone does not
renew its IP address when the DHCP server is not
reachable during the phone’s startup sequence,
but uses the last-known IP address. If set to
no
,
the phone keeps retrying the DHCP server to
obtain a new IP address. This field is set to
yes
by
default.