Your Phone
Phone Setup
Typically, your administrator sets up your phone and connects it to the network. If your phone is not set up
and connected, contact your administrator for instructions.
Ways to Provide Power to Your Conference Phone
Your conference phone needs power from one of these sources:
• Power over Ethernet (PoE), which your network supplies.
• Cisco IP Phone Power Injector.
• A Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832 PoE Midspan Cable to add power to your LAN connection. You
Note
The midspan cable is not currently available.
The following figure shows the PoE and midspan cable power options.
Figure 2: Conference Phone Power Options
Connect to the Network
You need to connect the conference phone to the telephone network.
• Wired connection—The phone is plugged into the network using an Ethernet cable.
• Wireless connection—The Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832 can use Wi-Fi to connect to a Wireless
• Mobile and Remote Access Through Expressway—After you connect the phone to the network, it
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plug the cable into the phone, and then plug the LAN and a Cisco Power Cube 3 into the cable.
Draft comment: Design Team: Please verify if this is correct.
Access Point.
connects to the Expressway server automatically.
Draft comment: Design Team: The Braavos AG review indicated that MRA is not supported in the
first release of the 7832. Is that also the case for Volantis?
Cisco IP Conference Phone 8832 User Guide
Phone Setup
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