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CounterPath and BroadSoft Announce Bria for BroadWorks Softphone
Best-of-breed Companies Partner to Provide Integrated Desktop Communication Solution VANCOUVER an...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nBest-of-breed Companies Partner to Provide Integrated Desktop\nCommunication Solution\n\n\nVANCOUVER and GAITHERSBURG, MD, June 1 /CNW/ - CounterPath Corporation\n(TSX-V: CCV; OTCBB: CPAH), a leading provider of desktop and mobile VoIP\nsoftware products and solutions, and BroadSoft, Inc., the leading worldwide\nprovider of VoIP applications, today announced Bria for BroadWorks, a\nsoftphone offered by CounterPath that interoperates seamlessly with\nBroadSoft's BroadWorks(R) VoIP application platform.\n\n\nBria for BroadWorks is a feature rich, open standards-based softphone\nthat combines VoIP and Video over IP, Instant Messaging (IM), Short Message\nService (SMS), and Presence capabilities in a customizable user interface.\nDeployed in conjunction with BroadSoft's BroadWorks platform, Bria for\nBroadWorks provides advanced call control capabilities, auto-provisioning and\nfeature integration. The softphone also exposes Service Management, Call\nHistory and Contact Directory functionality directly within the client. Bria\nfor BroadWorks enables users to take advantage of BroadSoft's enhanced calling\nfeatures to improve productivity including:\n\n\n- Using one number for all incoming and outgoing calls, regardless of\n phone (BroadWorks Anywhere)\n- Viewing call history across all devices\n- Connecting easily with colleagues through click-to-call in contact\n directory\n- Escalating communications from IM, to an audio call, to a video call\n- Monitoring status of a workgroup through BroadWorks' Busy Lamp Field\n features\n- Using presence to intelligently interact with peers\n\n\n"In our continuing efforts to help enable small business and enterprise\nmarkets with unified communications (UC), we are pleased to announce this new\nversion of Bria, which is tightly integrated with BroadWorks so we can offer\nrich, productivity-enhancing capabilities to our joint customers and their end\nusers," said Todd Carothers, Vice President of Product Management,\nCounterPath. "The Bria for BroadWorks softphone simplifies and enhances the\nmanagement of voice communications and was jointly engineered to leverage the\npower of CounterPath softphone technology and the BroadWorks platform. With\nthis out-of-box solution, our service provider customers will get to market\nmore quickly and cost effectively."\n\n\n"...