Feature |
Benefit |
Hardware |
Industrial design |
• The phone offers an easy-to-use and intuitive arrangement of lines, keys, and calls.
• Hold, Transfer, Conference, Voice Mail Access, and Redial on fixed hard keys provide a traditional telephony-like user experience. |
Personalization |
• Choice of two colors: Arctic White or Charcoal. Handsets are available internationally as slimline or standard. You can mix and match them in the work environment to better meet employee preferences. |
Desk and wall mountable |
• A two-position footstand makes it easy to view and use the buttons and keys.
• The phone can be wall-mounted with wall-mounting holes located on its rear housing. |
Co-branding |
• You can include your logo on Cisco Unified IP Phone 6900 Series endpoints. Cisco has approved third-party vendors to produce the labels. |
Ethernet |
• An internal 2-port Cisco Ethernet switch allows for a direct connection to an IEEE 10/100BASE-T Ethernet network through an RJ-45 interface with single LAN connectivity for both the phone and a co-located PC. The system administrator can designate separate VLANs (802.1Q) for the PC and phone, providing improved security and reliability of voice and data traffic. |
Acoustic Features |
Codec support |
• The following audio-compression codecs are supported: encode G.711a, G.711u, G.729a, G.729ab and iLBC, decode G.711a, G.711u, G.729, G.729a, G.729ab and iLBC. |
Voice quality |
• Comfort-noise generation and voice-activity-detection (VAD) programming is supported on a system basis. |
Full-duplex speakerphone |
• You can place and receive calls through the back-lit speaker button. |
Mute |
• The phone offers mute and un-mute functions through the back-lit Mute key. |
Volume control |
• A volume-control toggle makes it easy to adjust the volume of the handset, monitor speaker, and ringer. |
Firmware |
Signaling protocol |
• Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) |
Phone firmware requirement |
• Supported on Version 9.0(2) and later |
Call-control compatibility |
• The phones are supported on Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Business Edition Versions 7.1.3 and later, as well as Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express 8.0 and later. |
Calling features |
• Adjustable ringing and volume levels
• Auto-barge
• Call forward
• Call pickup
• Call waiting
• Conference
• Group call pickup
• Hold
• Message-waiting indicator
• Meet-me conference
• Music on hold
• Mute
• Redial
• Shared line
• Transfer
• Voicemail (single button access) |
Security features |
• Certificates
• Image authentication
• Device authentication
• File authentication
• Signaling authentication
• Media encryption using Secure Real-Time Transfer Protocol (SRTP)
• Signaling encryption using Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
• Encrypted configuration files
Cryptography is not enabled by default and may only be enabled through a cryptographically enabled CUCM. |
Network features |
• Cisco Discovery Protocol and Link Layer Discovery Protocol for Media Endpoint Devices (LLDP-MED)
• Dynamic network parameters provisioned through Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Static network parameters provisioned through Embedded interactive-voice-response (IVR) system |
Serviceability |
• Embedded web server that provides configuration and statistics
• Quality-of-service (QoS) reporting: Jitter, delay, dropped packets, and latency on a per-call basis
• Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP) support and monitoring
• Syslog |