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Cisco IPPhone 7960 and 7940SeriesUser Guide
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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.
Note
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.
