CounterPath Bria Professional 2.4 User Guide - Manual (Page 5)

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1 Introduction
Bria Professional is CounterPath’s softphone designed specifically for business and enterprise users. It includes
the features that are standard to Bria—the ability to make VoIP phone calls, to send and receive instant
messages (IM), to share presence (availability) information, and to exchange files. Bria Professional adds to
those features the ability to auto-answer incoming calls and support for LDAP.
A system administrator in an enterprise can provision the application remotely (with or without DHCP), and
automatically install the .msi package across an enterprise.
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Standard Telephone Features
The CounterPath Bria Professional has all standard enterprise 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 transfer.
• Call record.
• Auto answer.
• Six-party audio conferencing.
• Three-party video conferencing.
Enhanced Features and Functions
The CounterPath Bria Professional also supports the following features and functions:
• IM and presence using the SIMPLE protocol or the XMPP protocol.
• IM conferencing (Group Chat) via an XMPP account.
• Managed contact list – importing and exporting contacts between Bria Professional and other applications.
• File transfer via an XMPP account.
• File transfer via content indirection (by sending the files to a file transfer server for “pickup” by the other
party).
• Support for LDAP.
• Automatic detection and configuration of audio and video devices.
• Acoustic echo cancellation, automatic gain control, voice activity detection.
• Support for the following audio codecs:
AMR Wideband (G.722.2), Broadvoice-32, Broadvoice-32 FEC, DVI4, DVI4 Wideband, G.711aLaw,
G.711uLaw, G.723, G.726, G.729, GSM, iLBC, L16 PCM Wideband, Speex, Speex FEC, Speex Wideband,
Speex Wideband FEC.