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NEW System Requirements

CLIENT COMPUTER (INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENTS)

• Windows environment

  System	Memory	Processor
  Windows Vista	512MB	1.0GHz
  WinXP	256MB	750MHz
  Windows 2000	128MB	500MHz

  
  
• Linux environment

  System	Memory	Processor
  Linux	256MB	500MHz

  
  
• Mac environment

  System	Memory	Processor
  MacOS 10.5+	512MB	Intel CPU

  
  
• Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or later installed (free JRE download)
  
• Open Office, if desired for slide conversion (free download)
  
• Pentium III-300Mhz or better processor
• 64MB RAM (with video and extra WBD for projector, 256MB)
• 20MB free disk
• Standard sound card
• Earphones or amplified speakers
• Microphone (optional for students)
• Web camera (optional for instructor; not recommended for students)
  
• 56 kb/s or better network connection (non-conference student)
• 100 kb/s network connection (instructor without video)
• 500 kb/s network connection (instructor with video)

SERVER COMPUTER (MULTICASTER AND PLAYBACK)

• Windows 2000 or XP Pro, Linux, or Solaris
• Web server supporting html, shtml, and php installed
  (we recommend Apache - free download)
• MySQL database management system installed (free download)
• Java Runtime Environment Installed
• 100 MB free disk plus additional 500MB per course to be recorded
• 100 Mb/s network connection
  
  NOTE: The following supports 20 simultaneous clients;
  increase for larger groups
• Pentium III-1GHz or better processor
• 512 MB RAM to hold operating system and basic NEW system
• 216MB RAM for NEW system with one server
• 174MB for each additional server

SERVER NETWORK USAGE

If you cannot guarantee these rates across the whole path from client to server, do not try to run NEW, it will fail!

• bursts to 40 kb/s per connected student (without video)
• bursts ot 200 kb/s per connected student (with video)

CONFERENCE NETWORK USAGE

• while NEW supports modem-level connections for courses, conferences are now configured for graphic-intensive purposes so conference users require high capacity Internet connections. Symptoms of a weak connection are failure of NEW to start or frequent disconnections. Always test your connection before you attend a course of conference.