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Communique! 4.4 System Requirements

Supported Platforms/Configurations

  • Sun Microsystems SPARCStation & SPARC compatibles
    • Motif 1.2
    • Solaris 2.5.1 or above


  • Hewlett-Packard 9000 Series Workstations
    • HP-VUE 3.0 or CDE
    • HP-UX 10.01 or above


  • Digital Alpha 
    • Digital UNIX
    • Windows NT 4.0 or later


  • Silicon Graphics systems
    • Irix 5.3
    • Irix 6.x

     

  • IBM RISC/System 6000 Power and PowerPC series
    • AIX 4 or later


  • Pentium-based PCs
    • Windows NT 4.0 or later (for Intel or DEC Alpha)
    • Windows 95 or later

Contact MDL for specific availability and levels of operating system/window management requirements.

Peripheral Support

  • Unix Systems
    • 16 MB RAM minimum, 32 MB recommended
    • 10-15 MB of temporary disk space
    • 50 MB swap space, 60+ MB preferred


  • Windows Systems
    • 16 MB minimum
    • 5 MB of temporary disk space
    • 8 MB swap space, 12 MB preferred
    • VGA Display with 1 MB+ RAM (SVGA recommended),  PCI bus or AGP preferred
    • 16-bit network adapter with 32-bit device drivers and MS Winsock support

     

Communications/Network Requirements

  • Local Area Network:
    • Ethernet
    • FDDI
    • Token Ring
    • ATM

     

  • Wide Area Network Services:
    • ATM
    • Frame Relay
    • T1 or DS-3/Private Line Service
    • ISDN
    • SMDS
    • Switched 56

Contact MDL for specific configuration and bandwidth requirements based on desired level of Communique! functionality.

Supported Video Boards

  • All Supported Platforms
    • MDL ScsiCam
      • 24-bit full motion color video capture
      • NTSC and PAL signal format


  • Sun Microsystems SBus cards
    • Parallax Graphics PowerVideo and XVideo-24SVC
      • NTSC, PAL, and SECAM signal formats
      • 24-bit full motion color video
      • JPEG compression

     

    • Sun Video
      • NTSC, PAL and SECAM signal formats
      • 8-bit video capture
      • CellB compression


  • Hewlett Packard
    • Parallax Graphics EISA-bus card
      • NTSC, PAL, and SECAM signal formats
      • Parallax Graphics PowerVideo 700
      • 24-bit full motion color video
      • JPEG compression
    • Hewlett Packard DVC


    • Digital

      • DEC TURBOchannel card

    • NTSC, PAL, and SECAM signal formats
    • Sound & Motion J300
    • 16-bit full motion color video
    • JPEG compression
    • DEC PCI card
    • Full Video Supreme
    • NTSC, PAL, and SECAM signal formats
    • 24-bit full motion color video
    • JPEG & CellB compression

     

    • Silicon Graphics

    • VINO Video (Included with Indy Series workstations)
    • MVP Video (Included with O2 workstations)
    • Galileo Video (Included with Indigo2 workstations)

     

    • IBM RISC/System 6000

    • Ultimedia Video MicroChannel I/0 Base Adapter
    • NTSC and PAL signal formats
    • 8-bit video capture/24-bit option
    • JPEG compression

    Please contact MDL for additional board options.

    • Pentium-Class

    • Integrated MDL 16-bit ISA Audio/Video Board
    • NTSC and PAL signal formats
    • 8-bit video capture/24-bit option
    • Proprietary compression
    • MDL 16-bit ISA Indeo Upgrade
    • NTSC and PAL signal formats
    • True color video capture
    • Indeo compression
    • MDL PCI Bus Video Capture Board
    • MDL ISA Bus Video Capture Board

    Please contact MDL for additional recommended video boards and availability on supported platforms.

      Pricing schedules vary for Communique! based on specific options such as video boards, node-locked versions or floating licensing. Contact MDL directly for pricing information.


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