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Setting up Your System

Your SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP SIP phone is designed to be used like a

regular phone on a public switched telephone network (PSTN).
This chapter provides basic instructions for setting up your SoundPoint IP /

SoundStation IP phones. This chapter contains information on:

Setting Up the Network

Setting Up the Boot Server

Deploying Phones From the Boot Server

Upgrading SIP Application

Because of the large number of optional installations and configurations that

are available, this chapter focuses on one particular way that the SIP

application and the required external systems might initially be installed and

configured in your network.
For more information on configuring your system, refer to

Configuring Your

System

on page

4-1

. For more information on the configuration files required

for setting up your system, refer to

Configuration Files

on page

A-1

.

Note

For installation and maintenance of Polycom SoundPoint IP phones, the use of a
boot server is strongly recommended. This allows for flexibility in installing,
upgrading, maintaining, and configuring the phone. Configuration, log, and directory
files are normally located on this server. Allowing the phone write access to the
server is encouraged.

The phone is designed such that, if it cannot locate a boot server when it boots up,
it will operate with internally saved parameters. This is useful for occasions when
the boot server is not available, but is not intended to be used for long-term
operation of the phones.