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Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7931G? Related Topics • Understanding Interactions with Other Cisco Unified IP Communications Products, page 2-2 • Understanding the Phone Startup Process, page 2-8 • Network Configuration Menu, page 4-7 What Features are Supported on the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7931G? The Cisco Unified IP Phone functions much like a digital business phone, allowing you to place and receive telephone calls. In addition to traditional telephony features, the Cisco Unified IP Phone includes features that enable you to administer and monitor the phone as a network device. This section includes the following topics: • Feature Overview, page 1-10 • Configuring Telephony Features, page 1-11 • Configuring Network Parameters Using the Cisco Unified IP Phone, page 1-12 • Providing Users with Feature Information, page 1-12 Feature Overview Cisco Unified IP Phones provide traditional telephony functionality, such as call forwarding and transferring, redialing, speed dialing, conference calling, and voice messaging system access. Cisco Unified IP phones also provide a variety of other features. For an overview of the telephony features that the Cisco Unified IP Phone supports, see the "Telephony Features Available for the Phone" section on page 5-2. As with other network devices, you must configure Cisco Unified IP Phones to prepare them to access Cisco Unified Communications Manager and the rest of the IP network. By using DHCP, you have fewer settings to configure on a phone, but if your network requires it, you can manually configure an IP address, TFTP 1-10 Cisco Unified IP Phone 7931G Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.0 OL-12457-01