User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- The handset at a glance
- Overview of display icons
- The base station at a glance
- Contents
- Safety precautions
- Gigaset A580 IP - more than just making calls
- VoIP - making calls via the Internet
- Gigaset HDSP - telephony with brilliant sound quality
- First steps
- Operating the handset
- Menu trees
- Making calls with VoIP and the fixed line network
- VoIP telephony via Gigaset.net
- Network services
- Using lists
- Using the directory
- Saving the first number in the directory
- Storing a number in the directory
- Order of directory entries
- Selecting a directory entry
- Dialing with the directory
- Managing directory entries
- Using Shortcut keys
- Transferring the directory to another handset
- Copying a displayed number to the directory
- Copying a number from the directory
- Using the network mailbox
- ECO DECT: Conserving energy
- Setting the alarm clock
- Using multiples handsets
- Handset settings
- Changing the date and time
- Changing the display language
- Activating/deactivating the screensaver
- Quickly accessing functions
- Activating/deactivating auto answer
- Changing the handsfree/earpiece volume
- Setting ringers
- Activating/deactivating advisory tones
- Setting the battery low tone
- Restoring the handset default settings
- Setting the base station via the handset
- Making VoIP settings on the handset
- Operating the base station on the PABX
- Setting the phone with the PC
- Connecting the PC with the telephone's Web configurator
- Logging in, setting the Web configurator language
- Logging off
- Using the Web pages
- Menu bar
- Navigation area
- Working area
- Buttons
- Opening Web pages
- Setting the phone with the Web configurator
- Configuring the IP
- Configuring telephone connections
- Optimizing voice quality for VoIP connections
- Setting the telephone's default connection
- Activating the fixed line network connection as an alternate connection
- Assigning send and receive numbers to handsets
- Activating Call Forwarding for VoIP connections
- Entering your own area code, activating/deactivating an automatic area code for VoIP
- Activating/deactivating network mailbox, entering numbers
- Setting DTMF signaling for VoIP
- Defining Flash key functions for VoIP (hook flash)
- Configuring call forwarding via VoIP
- Defining local communication ports for VoIP
- Messaging
- Configuring info services/activating idle display
- Changing internal handset numbers and names
- Transferring handset directories to/from the PC
- Activating VoIP status message display
- Starting a firmware update
- Activating/deactivating the automatic version check
- Copying the date/time from time server
- Querying the phone status
- Getting help with your phone
- Protecting our environment
- Appendix
- FCC / ACTA Information
- Gigaset A580 IP - free software
- Accessories
- Glossary
- Index
- Mounting the charging cradle to the wall
- Mounting the base station to the wall
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Glossary
Gigaset A580 IP / US English / A31008-xxxx-xxxx-x-xxxx / glossary.fm / 24.04.2009
Version 8, 03.09.2008
Call forwarding
= CF
Automatic forwarding (CF) of a call to a different telephone number. There are
three kinds of call forwarding:
u CFU, Call Forwarding Unconditional
u CFB, Call Forwarding Busy
u CFNR, Call Forwarding No Reply
CF £ Call forwarding
Chatting Form of communication on the Internet. During a chat, brief messages are
exchanged between the communicating parties in real time. Chatting in this
sense is understood to be a written form of communication.
Client Application that requests a service from a server.
Codec
Coder/decoder
Codec is a procedure that digitizes and compresses analog voice before it is
sent via the Internet, and decodes – i.e. translates into analog voice – digital
data when voice packets are received. There are different codecs, with differing
degrees of compression, for instance.
Both parties involved in the telephone connection (caller/sender and recipient)
must use the same codec. This is negotiated between the sender and the recip-
ient when establishing a connection.
The choice of codec is a compromise between voice quality, transmission speed
and the necessary bandwidth. A high level of compression, for example, means
that the bandwidth required for each voice connection is low. However, it also
means that the time needed to compress/decompress the data is greater, which
increases execution time for data in the network and thus impairs voice quality.
The time required increases the delay between the sender speaking and the
recipient hearing what has been said.
COLP / COLR
Connected Line Identification Presentation/Restriction
Service characteristic of a VoIP connection for outgoing calls.
COLP displays the phone number accepting the call on the calling party's dis-
play unit.
The number of the party accepting the call is different to the dialed number,
e.g. if the call is forwarded or transferred.
The called party can use COLR (Connected Line Identification Restriction) to
prevent the number from appearing on the calling party's display.
Consultation call
You are on a call. With a consultation call, you interrupt the conversation briefly
to establish a second connection to another participant. If you terminate the
connection to this participant immediately, then this was a consultation call. If
you switch between the first and second participant, it is called
Toggling.
CW
£ Call waiting