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Cisco Wireless IP Phone Integration and Troubleshooting
Integration Solutions for Cisco Wireless IP Phones
Cisco's wireless IP phones are hardened Wi-Fi handsets intended for professionals who are on the move within office, hospitality, health-care or other venues where IT management requires user endpoints that provide more control, security and durability than is possible with the BYOD mode of workplace communications. Successful integration of Cisco's wireless IP phones usually demands that IT teams configure and optimize many components of your Wi-Fi environment such as access points, routers, Cisco wireless LAN controllers, and call management tools.
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist your business to integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the latest media phones. Progent can also help you to configure Cisco Unified Communications Manager apps like Unified CM IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating an advanced customer contact solution.
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure consultants and wireless deployment consultants can assist your organization to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot Cisco Wi-Fi IP phone solutions by providing wireless site surveys to analyze usable RF spectrum, identify which models of Cisco wireless access points should be deployed and where they can best be placed. A critical deliverable of Progent's Wi-Fi site survey is the production of heatmaps indicating your venue's RF coverage plan.
Progent's consultants can deliver support with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, resolving QoS issues, configuring SIP trunks and CUBE session border controllers, and creating Cisco UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability.
Cisco 8800 Series Wireless IP Phones
Cisco's Wi-Fi phones are industrial-grade mobile units intended for workers who are on the move within warehouse, health-care or other environments where organizations are looking for mobile endpoints that offer more manageability, data security and toughness than is possible with BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) client devices.
Cisco's 8821 and 8812-EX Wi-Fi IP Phones provide mobile onsite users the advantages of voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) telephony in environments that deploy 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi. The 8821 Wireless IP Phone has a 2.4-inch color display, a ruggedized case with military grade shock resistance and IP67 for resistance to dust particles and splash, extended-life batteries, an integrated speakerphone, and Bluetooth support for cordless headphones. The 8821 works with a wide selection of Cisco Aironet and Cisco Meraki wireless APs, and SIP IP call control is supported via Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco CUCM Express.
The 8821-EX Wireless IP Phone offers the same basic specs as the 8821 and includes ATEX Class 1 and Zone 2 compliance. This can avoid sparking during temporary exposure within volatile sites. Also, the 8821-EX comes in a body made of industry-recognized yellow plastics, which makes it easier to locate the 8821-EX in case of a crisis.
Legacy Cisco Wireless IP Phones
Legacy Cisco wireless IP phones for which Progent continues offers support include the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7925G and the 7925G-EX. These devices are more durable than earlier Wi-Fi IP phones from Cisco and both feature Bluetooth 2.0. The 7925-EX includes ATEX Class 1 Zone 2 and IP64 compliance and is enclosed in a yellow shell for easy location in case of an emergency. Progent's consultants can also assist you to maintain or migrate from discontinued 7921G model Wi-Fi IP phones.
How Progent Can Help You to Integrate Cisco Wireless IP Phones
Successful deployment of Cisco's wireless IP phones can entail the configuration and fine tuning of many components of your Wi-Fi network including wireless access points, routers and switches, Wi-Fi LAN controllers, DHCP servers, TFTP servers, and IP call management software. Upgrading your mobile Wi-Fi IP phones typically involves firmware updates to Cisco network appliances and software updates to Cisco management platforms. Progent's Cisco technology consultants can provide remote and on-premises expertise to assist your IT management team to create and maintain a Cisco Wi-Fi IP phone deployment by delivering integration services that can range from reviewing the configuration of a troublesome Wi-Fi VoIP phone or access point to providing project management or co-management services for updating the Wi-Fi infrastructure of an entire campus.
Progent's certified data security consultants can assist your organization to define and implement policies for your wireless VoIP phones, Wi-Fi APs and other Wi-Fi infrastructure so that your Wi-Fi environment complies with your corporate and industry requirements and government regulations.
Typical online consulting expertise delivered by Progent to integrate or debug Cisco mobile IP phones include:
- Perform wireless site surveys and identify RF problems
- Plan Wi-Fi AP selection, layout and configuration
- Configure and test Cisco wireless IP phones, routers, switches, access points, and wireless LAN controllers
- Activate encryption and authentication and fix security problems
- Set up centralized management and automatic provisioning for wireless IP phones
- Review and update Cisco CUCM for controlling wireless IP phones
- Mitigate SSID and registration anomalies
- Resolve mask problems for Cisco Unity Connection
- Troubleshoot DHCP and DNS server settings
- Tune QoS configuration such as queuing and call control for wireless voice data
- Configure secure and transparent roaming including interband roaming
- Debug integration issues with Bluetooth headphones
- Identify and repair multipath issues
- Fix coexistence issues with various versions of 802.11x protocols
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