Cisco 7906G Administration Guide

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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G and 7911G Administration Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.1
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Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone
What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G and 7911G?
What Features are Supported on the
Cisco
Unified IP Phone 7906G and 7911G?
The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G and 7911G functions much like a digital
business phone, 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 1-9
• 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
Feature Overview
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 Telephony Features Available for the
Phone, page 5-2.
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.
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, and subnet
mask. For instructions on configuring the network settings on the
Cisco
Unified IP Phones, see Chapter 4, “Configuring Settings on the
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. Or, you can also use XML to
enable users to access information such as weather, stocks, quote of the day, and

Cisco 7906G Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	7906G
Category	IP Phone
Language	English