Cisco Systems Digital Camera User Manual

Introducing Cisco VT Advantage

Congratulations on your purchase of Cisco VT Advantage.
Cisco VT Advantage brings video telephony functionality to your
Cisco IP Phone.

This guide provides information and instructions for installing
Cisco VT Advantage and the Cisco VT Camera. It includes these topics:

• Getting Started

• Installing Cisco VT Advantage

• Using Your Cisco VT Camera

• Using Cisco VT Advantage

• Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information

• Cisco One-Year Limited Hardware Warranty Terms

Getting Started

Check your Cisco VT Camera package and verify installation requirements
before you begin the installation.

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Cisco VT Camera Package

Review the following list to make sure you have received all the necessary
items to install Cisco VT Advantage.

• 1 Cisco VT Camera with attached USB cable

• 1 flexible camera base

• 1 privacy shade

• this Cisco VT Advantage Quick Start Guide

See Figure 1 in the “How to Set Up the Cisco VT Camera” section on page 5
for an illustration of the Cisco VT Camera components and connections. If
you are missing any items, contact your system administrator before
continuing with the installation.

Installation Requirements

Cisco VT Advantage is supported on the Cisco IP Phone [phone]
series.

For the latest information about supported phone models and minimum PC
requirements, contact your system administrator. If you are a system
administrator or technician, information about Cisco VT Advantage network,
PC, and other requirements is provided in the Cisco VT Advantage

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Administration Guide, available at this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/c_ipphon
/index.htm

Verify the following before you begin installing Cisco VT Advantage and the
Cisco VT Camera:

• Ensure that your Cisco IP Phone is connected to your corporate

telephony network. If your Cisco IP Phone is powered on and you can
make voice calls, then you are properly connected.

• Ensure that your Cisco IP Phone is video enabled. If the LCD screen on

your Cisco IP Phone displays this video icon on the status line,
then your phone is video enabled. (If you do not see an icon similar to
this one on your IP Phone, contact your system administrator.)

• Ensure that a standard Ethernet cable is connected from your personal

computer’s (PC) Ethernet input to the Access Port labelled “10/100 PC”
on the back of your Cisco IP Phone. On most PCs, you can verify that
this connection is working by the presence of a lit green LED at the point
where the Ethernet cable plugs into the PC.

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• Ensure that your PC meets the following specifications:

PC Feature Minimum Requirement

Operating system • Windows 2000 Professional with service

pack 3.0 or later

• Windows XP Professional, with service

pack 1.0 or later

CPU • 1.0 GHz or higher Pentium III or

compatible processor (Streaming SIMD
Extensions support required)

• 1.4 GHz or higher Pentium III or

compatible processor recommended

System memory • 256 MB minimum
Free disk space • 40 MB
USB port • At least 1 free USB (1.1 or 2.0 compliant)

port

Video display • Video capable graphics card at

800 x 600 x 16 bit or better

Network • 10/100 Mbit Ethernet NIC

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Installing Cisco VT Advantage

Make sure you have read the “Getting Started” section on page 1 before you
begin installing Cisco VT Advantage.

Installation Sequence

You must follow this sequence when installing Cisco VT Advantage:

1. First, remove the Cisco VT Camera parts from the packaging and set up

the camera. See the “How to Set Up the Cisco VT Camera” section on

page 5.

2. Second, install the Cisco VT Advantage software. See the “How To

Install Cisco VT Advantage” section on page 9.

How to Set Up the Cisco VT Camera

Your system administrator or a technician will likely set up the
Cisco VT Camera. If that is not the case, setting up your camera is easy. See

Figure 1, and the steps that follow.

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Figure 1 Cisco VT Camera Components and Connections

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1 Cisco VT Camera 4 Flexible camera base
2 USB cable and connector 5 Opening on the bottom of the

camera

3 Privacy shade (attaches to the

camera)

6 Tab on the flexible camera base

(snaps into the opening on the
bottom of the camera)

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Procedure

Caution Do not connect the camera to your PC until prompted to do so

during the installation of the Cisco VT Advantage software.

1. Remove the camera, privacy shade, and the flexible camera base from

the packaging.

2. Mount the camera on the flexible camera base:
a. Insert the protruding black plastic tab on the camera base into the

opening on the bottom of the camera.

b. Snap the camera into place.

The camera will then be firmly connected to the flexible camera base.

3. Attach the privacy shade to the camera.

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