The competitively priced, high-performing Avaya J179 IP Phone features a color display, 4 softkeys, high definition audio quality, integrated Gigabit Ethernet interface and headset support. The J179 IP Phone leverages your enterprise IP network to deliver sophisticated voice communications from headquarters, remote locations, or home offices.

Tightly integrated with the Avaya Aura and IP Office platforms, the J179 IP Phone optimizes communications through a flexible architecture that leverages existing investments and accommodates changing business needs.

•3.5" Color display (320 x 240 pixels).

•24 programmable button slots for call appearance and feature buttons.

•The button slots can be arranged in either 3-pages of 8 (dual-column mode) or 6-pages of 4 (single column mode). See single/dual column display.

•Additional programmable button can be added by the addition of up to 3 JMB24 button modules, each module supporting an additional 24 buttons.

•8 twin-LED (red and green) physical buttons used to indicate the status of the programmable button slots currently in view on the display.

•4 Additional buttons under the display, used for context sensitive soft key functions as indicated by the display labels above them.

•Illuminated buttons for missed calls, speaker, headset and mute.

•Non-illuminated buttons for messages, contacts, call log and phone configuration menu access.

•Call alerting, message waiting indication lamp.

•Dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports. One for phone network connection. One for PC pass-through to allow co-location with a user PC.

•The phone includes a two-position desk stand. An optional wall mounting stand is available.

•The J100 Series phones support the following audio codecs: G.711, G.726a, G.729, G.729a, G.729ab, G.722. The phone's also support OPUS but that codec is not supported on IP Office systems.

•Power via either PoE (Power over Ethernet). The phone is a PoE Class 1 device. An optional 5V power supply unit is available for locations where PoE is not available or suitable.

•The phone changes to PoE Class 2 when using a button module or modules.

•The J179 has a slot for an optional J100 wireless module. The module allows the phone to connect to the network using Wi-Fi and/or to use Bluetooth headsets.