Catos 3524 you didn t have the switchport voice vlan command however the modern cisco ip phone still expected to be able to use cdp to discover tagged packets on the port it was plugged into.
What is an ip phone and how it works.
The ip address is essential for routing and forwarding ip packets from source to destination.
Voip phones use the internet to connect to the phone network and need to be registered online to a service provider.
Ip phones these specialized phones look just like normal phones with a handset cradle and buttons.
They look something like 192 168 1 34.
Ip stands for internet protocol meaning your voice signal is digitized and travels over the internet to complete the call.
An ip address is a unique set of numbers that identifies a machine on a network whether it is a computer server electronic device router phone or another device.
These packets are transmitted the same way as any other data sent over the internet such as emails texts images or videos.
How ip phones work.
An ip phone connects through an ethernet cable rather than a phone jack to the internet where it connects to the ip address of either the voip provider or the hosted pbx provider.
Each number can range from 0 to 255.
You ve seen these addresses before.
Ip phones connect directly to your router and have all the hardware and software necessary right onboard to handle the ip call.
In simpler words ip phones work by taking telephone conversations and routing them through an ip phone system also known as a voip system over a network cable into the network and then out and into the internet.
An ip address is always a set of four numbers like that.
So the full ip addressing range goes from 0 0 0 0 to 255 255 255 255.
How does the cisco ip phone work.
Voip phones are tied to user accounts not phone numbers.
So the 2 ports on the back of the phone one.
A voice over ip phone system or voip uses a different technology to transmit audio.
From a user s perspective it works just like a traditional phone but better.
So in those cases.
Other business phones require dedicated copper wiring separate from an ethernet connection.
Ip phones work by translating analog voice signals into digital data packets that can be sent over the internet.