CounterPath Bria 3.1 for Windows User Guide - Retail Deployments - Manual (Page 5)

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1 Introduction
Read this manual if you who are deploying Bria without the help of a system administrator. If you are working
in an enterprise that has a system administrator who is deploying Bria across the enterprise, read the user guide
“Using Bria 3 for Windows – for Enterprise Deployments”.
Bria is a softphone from CounterPath that enables you to make VoIP voice and video calls, send and receive
instant messages, share online status (presence) information, and exchange files.
Standard Telephone Features
The CounterPath Bria softphone has all standard telephone features, including:
• Call display and Message Waiting Indicator (MWI).
• Speakerphone and Mute.
• Redial, Hold, Do Not Disturb.
• Call history – list of received, missed, and dialed calls.
• Call forward.
• Call transfer.
• Call record.
• Auto answer.
• Six-party audio conferencing.
• Three-party video conferencing.
Enhanced Features and Functions
Bria also supports the following features and functions:
• Video
• Support for several languages in addition to English: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
• IM and presence using the SIP SIMPLE protocol or the XMPP protocol.
• IM conferencing (group chat) via an XMPP account.
• Contact list containing the individual user’s contacts.
• Directory containing names from a shared LDAP directory or Microsoft® Active Directory®.
• File transfer via an XMPP account.
• Support for DTMF (RFC 2833 or inband DTMF).
• Automatic detection and configuration of audio and video devices.
• Acoustic echo cancellation, automatic gain control, voice activity detection.
• Support for the following audio codecs (not all these codecs are included in the retail brands):
AMR Wideband (G.722.2), Broadvoice-32, Broadvoice-32 FEC, DVI4, DVI4 Wideband, EVRC,
G.711aLaw, G.711uLaw, G.722, G.723, G.726, G.729, GSM, iLBC, L16 PCM Wideband, Speex,
Speex FEC, Speex Wideband, Speex Wideband FEC.