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IntroducingYourCisco IPPhone

Your Cisco IP Phone is a full-feature telephone that provides voice communication over an IP (Internet Protocol) network. This phones functions much like a traditional analogphone, allowingyou toplace and receive telephone calls. It also supports features that you have come to expect from a telephone—such as speed dialing, redial, call transfer, conference calling, and voicemail access. Your Cisco IPPhone offers features that might surprise you. Because it is part of an IP network, your Cisco IPPhone can provide not only telephony services, but data services, too—including up-to-the-minute information from the Internet through anExtensibleMarkupLanguage (XML)-based application. In a nutshell, your Cisco IPPhone provides awhole range of communication features that you could not expect from a traditional telephone.

ARoadMap toYourCisco IPPhone

Refer to the following illustrations and table to identify the buttons and parts on your Cisco IP Phone and to find a description of related features.

Theonlydifferencebetweenphones in theCisco IP Phone 7960 series and the 7940 series is the number of available line or speed dial buttons. The Cisco IP Phone 7940 series has two and the 7960 series has six.

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Cisco IPPhone 7960 and 7940SeriesUser Guide

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