CounterPath Bria 3.3 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, on the other
hand, 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: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
• IM and presence using the SIP SIMPLE protocol and the XMPP protocol.
• IM conferencing (group chat) via an XMPP account.
• Corporate chat rooms.
• Contact list containing the individual user’s contacts.
• Directory containing names from a shared LDAP directory or Microsoft® Active Directory®.
• Access to Microsoft Outlook® contacts from within Bria.
• 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.