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
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Version 8, 03.09.2008
D
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Internet protocol which regulates the automatic assignment of
IP addresses to
Network subscribers. The protocol is made available in the network by a
server. A DHCP server can, for example, be a router.
The phone contains a DHCP client. A router that contains a DHCP server can
assign the IP addresses for the phone automatically from a defined address
block. The dynamic assignment means that several
Network subscribers can
share one IP address, although they can only use it alternately and not simulta-
neously.
With some routers you can specify that the IP address for the phone is never
changed.
Displayed name
VoIP provider feature. You can specify any name that is to be shown to the
other party during a call instead of your phone number.
DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
DMZ describes a part of a network that is outside the firewall.
A DMZ is set up, as it were, between a network you want to protect (e.g. a LAN)
and a non-secure network (e.g. the Internet). A DMZ permits unrestricted
access from the Internet to only one or a few network components, while the
other network components remain secure behind the firewall.
DNS
Domain Name System
Hierarchical system that enables assignment of
IP addresses to Domain
names
that are easier to memorize. This assignment must be managed in each
(W)LAN from a local DNS server. The local DNS server determines the IP
address, if necessary by enquiring about superordinate DNS servers and other
local DNS servers on the Internet.
You can specify the IP address of the primary/secondary DNS server.
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DynDNS.
Domain name
Name of one (several) Web server(s) on the Internet (e.g. gigaset.net).
The domain name is assigned to the relevant IP address by DNS.
DSCP
Differentiated Service Code Point
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Quality of Service (QoS).
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
Data transfer technology that allows Internet access with, for e.g. 1.5
Mbps
over a conventional telephone line. Prerequisites: DSL modem and the appro-
priate service offered by the Internet provider.
DSLAM
Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
The DSLAM is a switch cabinet in an exchange at which all subscriber connec-
tors converge.