Cisco 7936 User Manual

Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7936

The Cisco® Unified IP Phone family provides industry-leading levels of integrated
business functionality and converged communications features beyond today’s
conventional voice systems—surpassing competitive offerings. Cisco Systems
continues to deliver one of the industry’s best end-to-end data and true voice over
IP (VoIP) solutions, offeringthemostcomplete,stylish,andfeature-richIPphonesto
enterprise and small to midsize customers.

Data Sheet

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Cisco Unified IP
ConferenceStation7936

The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station
7936 combines state-of-the-art
speakerphone conferencing technologies
with award-winning Cisco voice
communicationtechnologies. The net result
is a conference room phone that offers
superior voice and microphone quality,
with simplified wiring and administrative
cost benefits. A full-featured, IP-based,
hands-free conference station, the new
CiscoUnifiedIPConferenceStation 7936 is
designed for use on desktops, conference
rooms, and in executive suites.

The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station
7936 offers improvements over the existing
Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7935
with external microphone ports, optional
external microphone kit, newly

audio-tunedspeaker grill, and anewbacklit
liquid crystal display (LCD) display. The
optional microphone kit includes two
microphones with six-foot cords. This
places microphones across a 12-foot area,
effectively expanding a suggested
conference room size of 20 feet by 30 feet.
The new backlit LCD display improves
visibility in low light conditions. The
display font size is also adjustable for
improved distant viewing.

The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station

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7936 easily joins a Cisco Catalyst

10/100
Ethernet switch port with a Cisco RJ-45
cable connection, and configures itself to
the IP network via the Dynamic Host
Control Protocol (DHCP).

The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station
7936 offers exceptional voice
quality—virtually eliminating echoes,
reverberations,and truncated wordstohelp
deliver a more natural conversation. It
features superb sound quality with a
digitally tuned speaker and three
microphones that minimize background
noise, allowing conference participants to
move around the room while speaking.
Connecting two optional extension
microphones to the base unit enables both
voice coverage for larger rooms and
enhanced speaker volume output.

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In addition to the regular telephony keypad, the Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7936 provides three soft keys
and menu navigation keys that guide a user through call features and functions. The Cisco Unified IP Conference
Station 7936 also features a pixel-based LCD display, which exhibits the date and time, calling party name, calling
party number, digits dialed, and feature and line status.

Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7936 Features

The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7936 provides the following:

• Standard business telephony features—Includes call hold, call transfer, call release, mute, conference (“ad-hoc”
and “meet-me” conferencing, park, and pick up.

• Feature updates—Facilitates Cisco Unified CallManager software upgrades along with advances in system
capabilities.

• Full-duplex operation—Permits natural, two-way conversations without clipping or distortion; the system
automatically adapts to changes in the acoustic conditions of the room using state-of-the-art acoustic technology.

• Integrated keypad—Eliminates the need to receive and place calls on a separate telephone.

• 360-degreeroomcoverage—Apowerful,digitally-tuned custom speaker and three sensitive microphones provide
uniform coverage of small-to-midsize conference rooms or offices.

• Singlecabledesign—Reduces clutter on the tabletop by combiningasingle cable from the power interfacemodule
(PIM) cable with network and power.

• Simple to install—Configures easily with Cisco Unified CallManager.

• Freedom from special end-user training—Works like a regular telephone.

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for auto address configuration to the IP network

• Cisco Discovery Protocol for Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7936 to Cisco Catalyst switch port
discovery—Provides powerful protocol for E911 services, phone tracking, and asset/theft management.

• Auto configuration of phone number, software images, and personalized settings—Simplifies installation,
reconfiguration, and future feature enhancements such as Web browsing capabilities.

• The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7936 uses a single 10/100BaseTx Ethernet LAN connection to the
network via a RJ-45 cable interface.

The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7936 also features:

• Convenient volume control buttons

• Five user-adjustable ring tones

• G.711 (A-law and -Law) and G.729a audio compression

• IP address assignment —DHCP client or statically configured

• Comfort noise generation and voice activity detection

• Web and LCD-based configuration

• Local 20 entry directory

This product also features settings for:

• Display contrast

• Ring type

• Network configuration

• Call status

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