The phone works like a normal phone. However, making calls is easier. You can use your phone like any other phone to make calls.

Procedure
Enter a number and pick up the handset.

Use the loudspeaker for hands-free talking. Note that your colleagues can also hear your call.

Procedure

Step 1 Enter a number using the keypad.
Step 2 Press the loudspeaker icon.

You can send an incoming call to your voicemail system (if configured) or to a predefined phone number. If this feature is not set up, the call will be rejected and the caller will hear a busy signal.

Procedure

To reject a call, do one of the following:

• Press Reject.
• If there are multiple incoming calls, highlight the incoming call and press Reject.

Use DND (Do Not Disturb) to turn off your phone's call signal and ignore incoming calls.

If you activate DND, incoming calls are forwarded to another number, for example to your voicemail (if configured).

When DND is activated, the colour of the headline area of the phone display changes and Do Not Disturb is shown.

When you activate DND, all lines on your phone are affected. However, intercom calls and emergency calls will still go through when DND is activated.

If MLPP (priority calling) is set up for your phone, priority calls will trigger a special ring tone on your phone even if DND is on.

Procedure

Step 1 Press Do Not Disturb to activate DND.

Step 2 Press Do Not Disturb again to deactivate DND.

You can answer a call that comes in on another phone within your call pick-up group. If more than one call can be picked up, pick up the first call received.

Procedure

Step 1 (Optional) Press the line key.

Step 2 Press Pickup to pick up an incoming call within your call pickup group on your phone.

Step 3 When you hear a ringing tone, press Answer to connect the call.

When you transfer a call, you can stay on the original call until the other person answers the call. This allows you to have a private conversation with the other person before you remove yourself from the call. If you do not want to talk to the caller, transfer the call before the other person answers.

You can also switch between both callers to talk to them before you remove yourself from the call.

Procedure

Step 1 In a call that is not on hold, press Transfer (icon).
Step 2 Enter the other person's phone number.
Step 3 (Optional) Wait until you hear the ring tone or the other person answers the call.
Step 4 Press Transfer again.

You can talk to several people in one call. You can call another person and add them to the call. If you have several telephone lines, you can merge two calls on two lines.

If you add several participants to a conference call, wait a few seconds before adding the next participant.

As the conference leader, you can remove individual participants from the conference. The conference ends when all participants hang up.

Adding another person to a call

If you add more than one participant to a call, wait a few seconds before adding the next participant.

Procedure

Step 1 In an active call, press Conference (icon).
Step 2 To add another person to a call, do one of the following:

• Press Active Calls and select a call on hold.
• Enter the phone number and press Call.

Step 3 Press Confer.

Switching between calls before a conference

You can talk to a person before adding that person to a conference. You can also switch between the conference call and the call with the other person.

Procedure

Step 1 Call a new conference participant, but do not add the participant to the conference.
Wait until the call is connected.
Step 2 Press Switch to switch between the participant and the conference.

Viewing and removing conference participants

Once you have created a conference, you can view the details of the last 16 participants who joined the conference. You can also remove the participants.

Procedure

Step 1 During a conference, press View Details to display a list of participants.
Step 2 (Optional) Highlight a participant and press Hang Up to end the call and remove the participant from the conference.

You can easily call back a number from which you were called.

Procedure

Step 1 Press Applications (gear icon).
Step 2 Select Recently Used.
Step 3 (Optional) Select All Lines or the desired line.
Step 4 Select the desired number.
Step 5 (optional) Press Edit No. to change the number.
Step 6 Press Call.

Deleting the call list

You can delete the call log from your phone.

Procedure

Step 1 Press Applications (gear icon).
Step 2 Select Recently Used.
Step 3 (Optional) Select All Lines or the desired line.
Step 4 Press Empty.
Step 5 Press Delete.

Delete call entry

You can edit the call history to remove a call from the history. This helps to save important contact information as the call history only contains 150 calls.

Procedure

Step 1 Press Applications (gear icon).
Step 2 Select Recently used.
Step 3 (Optional) Select All Lines or the desired line.
Step 4 Highlight the entry or call group you want to delete.
Step 5 Press Delete.
Step 6 Press Delete again to confirm.

Procedure

Step 1 Press Applications (gear icon).
Step 2 Select Settings > Ring Tone.
Step 3 Select a line.
Step 4 Scroll through the ringtone list and press Play to play the ringtone on a trial basis.
Step 5 Press Set to accept the ringing tone.

You can adjust the brightness of the screen to make it easier to read.

Procedure

Step 1 Press Applications (gear icon).
Step 2 Select Settings > Brightness.
Step 3 Press the navigation wheel on the left to decrease the brightness or on the right to increase the brightness.
Step 4 Press Save.

You can change the contrast of your Cisco IP Phone 8811 to make the screen easier to read. To check which phone model you are using, press Applications and select Phone Information. The phone model is displayed in the Model Number field.

Procedure

Step 1 Press Applications (gear icon).
Step 2 Select Settings > Contrast.
Step 3 Select Contrast.
Step 4 Press the navigation wheel on the left to reduce the contrast or on the right to increase the contrast.
Step 5 Press Save to set the contrast.