Cisco 7920 User Manual
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An Overview of the Cisco Unified
Wireless IP Phone 7920
The Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 provides wireless voice
communication over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Like traditional analog
telephones, you can place and receive phone calls and access features such as
hold, transfer, and speed dial. In addition, because the phone connects to your
wireless LAN, you can place and receive phone calls from anywhere in your
wireless environment.
This chapter includes the following topics:
• Understanding the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920, page 1-1
• Features Supported on the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920, page 1-3
Understanding the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920
The Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 is an 802.11b wireless device that
provides comprehensive voice communications in conjunction with
Cisco Unified CallManager and Cisco Aironet 802.11b Access Points (APs) in a
private business communications network.This phone model supports G.711a,
G.711u, and G.729a audio compression coder-decoders (codecs). You must
configure and manage a Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone like other IP phones and
wireless devices on your network.The wireless IP phone supports multiple lines
and most of the IP phone features of other Cisco Unified IP Phone models.
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Figure 1-1 shows the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920. The table that
follows describes the functions of the keys on the phone.
Figure 1-1 Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 Keys
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Left softkey—Activates the item in the label above the softkey.
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Right softkey—Activates the item in the label above the softkey.
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Answer/Send key (green)—Answers a call or dials a number.
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Number keys (0-9)—Use these keys to enter numbers or
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characters.
Number keys (2-9)—Press and hold these keys to activate
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ABC
speed-dial hot keys.
Asterisk (*) key—Toggles between Ring and Vibrate mode.
Toggles between upper and lower case.
Arrow key—Moves from one function to another. This guide
uses these directional arrows , , , or .
Power/End key (red)—Turns the phone on or off, silences a
ringing call, or ends a connected call.
Pound (#) key—Toggles between locking and unlocking the key
#
pad.
Allows you to access special characters when you are entering
text.
For more information about phone features and how they operate, refer to the
Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 Guide.
Related Topics
• Features Supported on the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920, page 1-3
• Overview of Configuring and Installing the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone
7920, page 1-8
Features Supported on the Cisco Unified Wireless
IP Phone 7920
The Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 functions much like traditional IP
phones allowing you to place and receive telephone calls while connected to the
wireless LAN. In addition to traditional phone features, the Cisco Unified
Wireless IP Phone includes features that enable you to administer and monitor the
phone as a network device.
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Caution This product is not intended for use with patient monitoring devices or other
patient care devices. Do not use this product as the primary communications tool
in health care environments, as it may use an unregulated frequency band that is
susceptible to interference from other devices or equipment.
This section provides information about these topics:
• Feature Overview, page 1-4
• Configuring Telephony Features, page 1-5
• Configuring Security for the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone, page 1-6
• Configuring Network Access for the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone,
page 1-6
• Providing Users with Feature Information, page 1-7
Feature Overview
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The Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 provides traditional telephony
functionality, such as call forwarding and transferring, call pickup, redialing,
speed dialing, conference calling, and voice messaging system access. In
addition, the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 provides the following
features:
• Wireless access to your corporate directory number and phone services.
• Multiline appearances
• Up to eight local speed-dial hot keys
• Caller ID for incoming calls
• Call-handling features such as forward, transfer, hold, call park, conference,
call pickup, and group pickup
• Configurable softkey for access to your personal phone book or IP phone
service
• Choice of four network profiles
• Choice of personal profiles for different environments, such as outdoors, or
meetings
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• Access to web-based services such as weather, stock reports, and phone
directories
Related Topics
• Configuring Network Profile Settings, page 5-3
• Configuring Features, Templates, Services, and Users, page 7-1
Configuring Telephony Features
You can use the Cisco Unified CallManager Administration application to set up
phone registration criteria and calling search spaces, and to modify softkey
templates, among other tasks. For more information, see Chapter 7, “Configuring
Features, Templates, Services, and Users.”
In some places, this manual provides partial instructions for procedures that
involve Cisco Unified CallManager Administration. These instructions are
intended to point you to the appropriate page in the Cisco Unified CallManager
application and to provide some initial guidance.
For more information about the Cisco Unified CallManager Administration
application, refer to Cisco Unified CallManager documentation, including Cisco
Unified CallManager Administration Guide. You can also use the
context-sensitive help that is available within the application. Access
context-sensitive help by choosing
Help > For this screen from the main menu bar.
You can access the complete Cisco Unified CallManager documentation for your
version at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/c_callmg/index.htm
Related Topic
• Methods for Adding Phones to Cisco Unified CallManager, page 3-3
• Configuring Features, Templates, Services, and Users, page 7-1
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