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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G

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Scalable, Feature-Rich Communications

The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G is well suited for employees in a basic office cubicle environment—such as transaction type workers—who conduct a moderate amount of business by phone.

The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G provides:

• Access to at least two telephone lines (or a combination of one line and one direct-access telephony feature such as AutoDial)
• High quality, hands-free speakerphone capability
• Built-in headset connectivity
• A large pixel-based display
• Easy acces to caller information, applications and telephone features

As the market leader in true IP telephony, Cisco® continues to deliver unsurpassed end-to-end data and voice-over-IP (VoIP) solutions, offering the most complete, stylish, fully featured IP phone portfolio to enterprise and small to medium-sized customers. Cisco Unified IP phones provide unmatched levels of integrated business functions and converged communications features beyond today's conventional voice systems.

The Cisco Unified IP phone products include phones with large pixel-based displays to bring productivity-enhancing applications to the phones, as well as customization options that can be modified as needs change, and provide inline power support over Ethernet. The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G is multiprotocol-enabled to support Session Initiated Protocol (SIP), Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), as well as the Cisco Unified CallManager Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP).

An important offering in the IP phone portfolio, the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G addresses the communications needs of a transaction-type worker. It provides two programmable line and feature keys, plus a high-quality speakerphone. The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G also has four dynamic soft keys that guide users through call features and functions. A built-in headset port and an integrated Ethernet switch are standard with the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G. The phone also includes audio controls for the full-duplex speakerphone, handset, and headset. This phone also features a large, pixel-based LCD display that provides information such as date and time, calling party name, calling party number, and digits dialed.

The graphic capability of the display allows for the inclusion of such features as Extensible Markup Language (XML) and future features. The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G is multiprotocol-capable (SCCP, SIP, and MGCP).

Features

The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G is dynamic and designed to grow with system capabilities. Features will keep pace with new changes through software updates to the phone flash memory. The phone provides many accessibility methods according to user preference. Various methods or paths include buttons, soft keys, a navigation key, and direct access with the use of corresponding "ghost" digits. Each of the following features will have expanded capabilities in the future:

• Messages
  • The Messages key offers direct access to voicemail. In the near future voicemail speech-to-text readout will be available on the display
• Directories
  • The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G identifies incoming messages and categorizes them for users on the screen, allowing users to quickly and effectively return calls using direct dial-back capability. The corporate directory integrates with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP3) standard directory
• Settings
  • The Settings feature key allows the user to adjust display contrast and select from a large number of unique ringer sounds, volume settings for all audio such as ringer, handset, headset, and speaker. Network configuration preferences can also be set up. (Network configuration is usually set up by the system administrator.)
• Services
  • The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G allows users to quickly access diverse information such as weather, stocks, quote of the day, or any Web-based information using XML to provide a portal to an ever-growing world of features and information.
• Speakerphone
  • The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7940G features high-quality, speakerphone technology. It also includes an easy-to-use speaker on/off button and microphone mute buttons. These buttons are lit when active.