User Manual

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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 th at h as a syste m a dmin ist ra to r who is d ep loy in g B ri a ac ro ss th e en terp ri se, 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 functio ns:
•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 us er’s contacts.
• Directory containing names from a shared LDAP directory or Microso ft® Active Directory®.
• File transfer via an XMPP account.
• Support for DTMF (RFC 2833 or inband DTMF).
• Automatic detec tion and configuration of audi o and vid eo 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.