The Cisco ® ATA 187 Analog Telephone Adaptor is a handset-to-Ethernet adaptor that turns traditional telephone devices into IP devices. Customers can take advantage of the many new and exciting IP telephony applications by connecting their analog devices to Cisco ATAs.
Configuration as per Cisco endpoints devices
Autoprovisioning with Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) for servers
Automatic assignment of IP address, network routing IP, and subnet mask using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Touch-tone telephone keypad configuration with voice prompt
Administration password to protect configuration and access
Remote upgrades through network
Advanced preprocessing to optimize full-duplex voice compression
High-performance line-echo cancellation to eliminate noise and echo
Voice activity detection (VAD) and comfort noise generation (CNG) to save bandwidth by delivering voice, not silence
Dynamic network monitoring to reduce jitter artifacts such a packet loss
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) on the Cisco line side
Secure Real-Time Transfer Protocol and Transport Layer Security (SRTP/TLS) over SIP