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Understanding How the CiscoUnified IP Phone Interacts with the VLAN

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Chapter 2 Preparing to Install the Cisco Unified IP Phone on Your Network Understanding Interactions with Other Cisco Unified Communications Products Note If the Cisco Unified IP Phone model that you want to configure does not appear in the Phone Type drop-down list in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration, go to the following URL and install the latest support patch for your version of Cisco Unified Communications Manager: http://www.cisco.com/kobayashi/sw-center/sw-voice.shtml Related Topic • Telephony Features Available for the Cisco Unified IP Phone, page 5-2 Understanding How the Cisco Unified IP Phone Interacts with the VLAN The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7911G has an internal Ethernet switch, which enables forwarding of packets to the phone and to the network port and access port on the back of the phone. The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G has an Ethernet port, which enables forwarding of packets to the phone and to the network port. If a computer is connected to the access port (Cisco Unified IP Phone 7911G), the computer and the phone share the same physical link to the switch and the same port on the switch. This shared physical link affects the VLAN configuration on the network in the following ways: • Although current VLANs might be configured on an IP subnet basis, additional IP addresses may not be available to assign the phone to the same subnet as other devices that connect to the same port. • Data traffic present on the data/native VLAN may reduce the quality of Voice-over-IP traffic. • Network security may necessitate the isolation of the VLAN voice traffic from the VLAN data traffic. You can resolve these issues by isolating the voice traffic onto a separate VLAN, so that the switch port to which the phone is connected uses separate VLANs for the following types of traffic: • Voice traffic to and from the IP phone (auxiliary VLAN, on the Cisco Catalyst 6000 series, for example) OL11954-01 Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G and 7911G for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.0 2-3

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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G and 7911G for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.0
OL11954-01
Chapter 2
Preparing to Install the Cisco Unified IP Phone on Your Network
Understanding Interactions with Other Cisco Unified Communications Products
Note
If the Cisco Unified IP Phone model that you want to configure does not appear
in the Phone Type drop-down list in Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Administration, go to the following URL and install the latest support patch for
your version of Cisco Unified Communications Manager:
Related Topic
Telephony Features Available for the Cisco Unified IP Phone, page 5-2
Understanding How the Cisco
Unified IP Phone Interacts with the
VLAN
The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7911G has an internal Ethernet switch, which enables
forwarding of packets to the phone and to the network port and access port on the
back of the phone. The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7906G has an Ethernet port, which
enables forwarding of packets to the phone and to the network port.
If a computer is connected to the access port (Cisco
Unified IP Phone
7911G), the
computer and the phone share the same physical link to the switch and the same
port on the switch. This shared physical link affects the VLAN configuration on
the network in the following ways:
Although current VLANs might be configured on an IP subnet basis,
additional IP addresses may not be available to assign the phone to the same
subnet as other devices that connect to the same port.
Data traffic present on the data/native VLAN may reduce the quality of
Voice-over-IP traffic.
Network security may necessitate the isolation of the VLAN voice traffic
from the VLAN data traffic.
You can resolve these issues by isolating the voice traffic onto a separate VLAN,
so that the switch port to which the phone is connected uses separate VLANs for
the following types of traffic:
Voice traffic to and from the IP phone (auxiliary VLAN, on the
Cisco Catalyst 6000 series, for example)