Counterpath

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.

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.

Features

• Bria includes 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
• 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

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

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.
• 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

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