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
P
Paging (handset search)
A base station function to locate registered handsets. The base station estab-
lishes a connection to every registered handset. The handsets start to ring.
Paging is activated by briefly pressing the button on the base station and is
deactivated by briefly pressing the same button again.
PIN
Personal Identification Number
Protects against unauthorized use. When the PIN is activated, a number combi-
nation has to be entered to access a protected area.
You can protect your base station configuration data with a system PIN (4-digit
number combination).
Port Data is exchanged between two applications in a Network via a port.
Port forwarding
The Internet gateway (e.g. your router) forwards data packets from the Inter-
net
that are directed to a certain Port to the port concerned. This allows servers
in the LAN to offer services on the Internet without you needing a public IP
address.
Port number
Indicates a specific application of a Network subscriber. Depending on the set-
ting in the
LAN, the port number is permanently assigned or else it is newly
assigned with each access.
The combination of
IP address/Port number uniquely identifies the recipient
or sender of a data packet within a network.
Predialing
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Block dialing.
Private IP address
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Public IP address.
Protocol Describes the agreements for communicating within a Network. It contains
rules for opening, administering and closing a connection, about data formats,
time frames and possible error handling.
Proxy/Proxy server
Computer program that controls the exchange of data between Client and
Server in computer networks. If the phone sends a query to the VoIP server, the
proxy acts as a server towards the phone and as a client towards the server.
A proxy is addressed via
Domain names/IP addresses and Ports.
Public IP address
The public IP address is the address for a network component on the Internet.
It is assigned by the Internet Service Provider. Devices that act as a link from a
local network to the Internet (gateway, router) have a public and a local IP
address.
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IP address and NAT