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Overview

Bria is the newest softphone application from CounterPath, allowing users to enjoy multimedia communications in a dynamic way.

Featuring an intuitive interface, Bria is expanding the softphone experience by making it even easier to make VoIP and Video over IP calls, see when your contacts are available and send Instant Messages.

While the popular eyeBeam 1.5 softphone uses a familiar-looking dialpad-centric user interface (which looks and feels like a regular phone), Bria features a contact-centric interface which focuses on your address book. This allows you to manage your communications more conveniently and according to your personal preferences.

Bria Professional

Bria Professional is a version of Bria which offers additional business features for the enterprise or business user such as provisioning and LDAP integration.

Bria and Bria Professional are available in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian.

New Features*

Improved G. 722 audio codec performance
Improved client control of audio input levels
Ability to hang up a call directly from the system tray
Advanced IM alert notification when the IM window is inactive or hidden

* Current Bria users will have received an in-client notification to upgrade to Bria 2.5; simply click the upgrade message to benefit from these new features. For more details on the new features, see the Bria 2.5 Release Notes under the Resources tab.

Feature Overview

The CounterPath Multimedia Communicator Bria is built on the same SIP-based platform as eyeBeam 1.5. In addition to the features offered in eyeBeam, Bria offers a number of usability features in a dynamic user interface.

Bria and Bria Professional are available in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian.

Standard Features

Bria and eyeBeam include the following standard features:

Open Standards based
Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) based signaling for all interactive media sessions
Enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) for voice & video calls
Security offering signaling & media encryption via TLS and SRTP streams
Performance Management of the SIP end-point
High Compression codec support
Comprehensive Personal Address Book, including detailed calls lists and history
Zero-Touch Configuration of your audio or video devices
Microsoft Outlook® 2003 integration allowing users to import their address book into their Bria contact list and dial directly from the application.
IM & Presence Management
Multi-party and ad hoc Voice and Video Conferencing [IP & PSTN]
Voice & Video Call Recording
Detachable & Sliding Drawers for quick Video and Contact information
Incoming call alerts

Exclusive to Bria

Bria offers several features not available in eyeBeam:

Interface

Focused around your address book, Bria's contact-centric interface gives you more ways to make, receive and manage your calls and IMs.
Make your desktop space more manageable by minimizing Bria to a deskbar from which you can make and receive calls quickly and easily.

Bria Deskbar

Call Management

Communicate more efficiently with a contact-centric user interface
Hide the dial pad when you don't need it
See picture-in-picture video layout
Employ Do Not Disturb function audio/video calls and/or IM and/or availability status
Detach call tabs
Use Quick Transfer for calls
Hide your ID for calls

Contact Management

Add a contact during a call
View combined history for calls and IM attached to contact details
Use default contact method for each contact
Place one contact in several groups
View avatars for individual contacts
Manage, sort and filter up to 3,000 contacts

Instant Message (IM) Management

Send instant messages to groups
Use IM tabs for multiple IM conversations in one window
See IM alerts for incoming IM
Invite and chat with multiple people in one IM (Group Chat via XMPP)
Save, view and search previous instant messages in an IM archive
Click to see recent IMs

Email

Send email to a contact or group using your default email application

Presence

Receive or block notification alerts for contacts' status
Establish unique privacy rules for each contact

Other

Create multiple user profiles
Set custom ringtones for calls and IM

Bria Professional

Bria Professional version is designed for business and enterprise users.

In addition to the features available in Bria, Bria Professional offers additional capabilities including:

LDAP integration
DHCP discovery (Provisioning Server)
Flexible login options
Enhanced installer options
Auto Answer
Improved security options with SRTP media encryption
Busy Lamp Field (BLF) workgroup creation (RLS server required)

Bria Professional can be deployed within an enterprise environment either by manually configuring via the softphone GUI, or using a provisioning server. Please refer to the Resources for more information.

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Requirements

To use Bria to make audio/video calls and/or send Instant Messages to a softphone, mobile or landline number, a VoIP (Voice over IP) service subscription with a local service provider or ISP is required. Please contact your local service provider to subscribe.

System Requirements

Processor	Minimum: Intel Pentium III 1.3GHz or equivalent Optimal: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or equivalent
Memory	512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Space	50MB
Operating system*	Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista
Connection	IP network connection (broadband, LAN, wireless)
Sound Card	Full-duplex, 16-bit
Browser	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later

* Windows Operating Systems: 32-bit OS only
** Outlook dialing support/integration (eyecall.dll) is supported in Outlook 2003 only

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