Turning on Cisco 7940CP

[celmassry]

how do i turn this phone on?

I connected it to my internet and its not turning on??

Christian

[Adarsh Chauhan]

Hi,

What do you mean by its not turning on?

Did you plug in rj45 to its back with other end that supports Power over Ethernet?

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Regards,

Adarsh Chauhan

[celmassry]

from my router, i plug in the cat 5 connection. .. nothing...

[Manish Gogna]

You need to connect it to a switchport that can supply 6.3 Watt of power, there are certain PoE requirements that need to be met as per the following

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice-unified-communications/unified-ip-phone-7900-series/97869-poe-requirement-faq.html

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/11693621/powering-poe-7940g-ip-phones

HTH

Manish

[celmassry]

can you please give me an example of where i can get this switch port?

[Manish Gogna]

Switchports are available on switches, if you don't have a Cisco switch then buying a new one for just one phone will not make sense. What is your existing infrastructure, for getting better support on the forums you need to provide details of the device models, firmware/ios details otherwise the posts will go unanswered or stretch for days.

HTH

Manish

[Jaime Valencia]

If you do not have a PoE switch or module on your ISR, you can always just buy a power cube

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaboration-endpoints/unified-ip-phone-7940g/product_data_sheet09186a008008884a.html