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 is available in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian.

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 Professional is available in English.

Features

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 new usability features in a dynamic user interface.

Bria is 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® 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 new 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.

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

IM Management

• Send instant messages to groups
• Use IM tabs for multiple IM conversations in one window
• See IM alerts for incoming IM

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

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

Pricing

Purchase Bria directly from our secure online store.
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For quantities greater than 200 units, please complete the Sales Request Form and a CounterPath Sales representative will contact you with details on bulk pricing.
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Bria Resources

Data Sheet

Bria 2.3 Data Sheet
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User Guides

Bria 2.3 User Guide
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Bria 2.2 User Guide
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Bria 2.1 User Guide
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Bria 2.0 User Guide
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Release Notes

Bria 2.3 Release Notes
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Bria 2.2 Release Notes
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Bria 2.0.1 Release Notes
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Product Comparison Chart

Compare X-Lite 3.0, eyeBeam 1.5 and Bria 2.2
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EULA

End User License Agreement
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