Cisco Small Business SPA509G - Chapter 1: Getting Started; Overview of the Phones

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Cisco Small Business SPA300 Series, SPA500 Series, and WIP310 IP Phone Administration Guide 12
Getting Started
This chapter contains basic information on Cisco SPA300 Series, Cisco SPA500
Series, and Cisco Wireless-G IP Phones in the following sections:
• Overview of the Phones, page 12
• Network Configurations, page 14
• Prerequisites, page 16
• Upgrading Firmware, page 17
• Using the Web-Based Configuration Utility, page 21
• Viewing Phone Information, page 28
• Using IVR on the Cisco SPA301 and Cisco SPA501G IP Phone, page 30
Overview of the Phones
The Cisco SPA IP Phone family is a line of full-featured VoIP (Voice over Internet
Protocol) phones that provide voice communication over an IP network. They
provide all the features of traditional business phones, such as call forwarding,
redialing, speed dialing, transferring calls, conference calling, and accessing voice
mail. Calls can be made or received with a handset, a headset, or a speaker.
The Cisco SPA IP Phone family includes the models shown in the following table:
Model Screen Lines Softkeys Navigation
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SPA301 No 1 None No