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Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapter Installation and Administration Guide ix
October 2001 Contents
Network considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
IP addressing and routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Determining DHCP Assigned IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Deployment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Transport media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Network Address Translation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
IP deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Installing the Meridian Digital Telephone IP Adapter
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Preparing for installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
General Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Required hardware and software tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Unpacking and inspecting the equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installing the Meridian Digital Telephone Internal IP Adapter circuit card. . 42
Removing the footstand of the digital telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Inserting the Meridian Digital Telephone Internal
IP Adapter circuit card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Installing ferrite beads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Connecting the Meridian Digital Telephone Internal
IP Adapter circuit card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Powering up the Meridian Digital Telephone Internal
IP Adapter circuit card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Installing the Meridian Digital Telephone External IP Adapter unit . . . . . . . 48
Installing the Meridian Digital Telephone External
IP Adapter unit on a desk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing the Meridian Digital Telephone External
IP Adapter unit on the wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Connecting the Meridian Digital Telephone External
IP Adapter unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Connecting the Meridian Digital Telephone External
IP Adapter unit to the network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Powering up the Meridian Digital Telephone External
IP Adapter unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52