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IT Requirements for Orbit Public Safety solutions
Note : There is no special hardware required ! Just make wise choices in relation to the volume of data to be processed and the desired performance..
Graphic Card
Orbit uses the Java Runtime Engine (JRE) to process graphic requests. Java should not be installed. The used JRE will be embedded in the Orbit Installation. On Windows, DirectX should have version 9 or higher.
Computing Power
The Orbit EOS server needs computing power to work easily with and process large amounts of data.
The requirements depend of the number of concurrent users, the amount of data and the performance expectations.
When using the Orbit Extensions AVL or InfoCenter the recommended settings are required for a successful installation.
Orbit Server
- Minimum : 64 Bit OS, 4 GB ram, Dual core processor(s)
- Recommended : 64 Bit OS, 8 GB ram, Quad core processor(s) or more
64bit OS guarantees optimal use of al the available system memory
Orbit Client for AIM (Mobile Mapping)
- Minimum : 32 Bit OS, 2 GB ram, Dual core processor(s)
Operating System
- Windows
Any of the Windows server environments are supported. Windows 7 is also supported but limits the number of simultaneous connections to 20. Older versions are supported but are not to be preferred
- Linux
We support two Linux distributions
- Ubuntu 10.0 or higher
- CentOS 5.0 or higher
Since Linux is not our standard, It is important the system administrator has a firm notion of the OS.
Following programs must be installed on the server by the system administrator
- MySQL 5.5 or higher
- PhpMyAdmin
- Samba
- Java (jre6 or higher)
- flash (version 11 or higher)
Disk Space
A standard installation requires 100Gig rom memory. Depending on the number of sketches and data more memory will be required.
Network Connection
Since Orbit will be installed on one single server computer, and clients will open the application from the server it is important to have a solid network connection between Orbit Clients,
the Orbit EOS Server and, if applicable, a the data server.
At least a 10 MBit connection is required.
Be attentive to the units of network speed :
| Network speed | Copy time | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Units | Gigabit per second | Megabit per second | Kilobit per second | kilobytes per second | file of 500 kB | file of 1 MB or 1024 kB |
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| Gbit/s, Gb/s, Gbps | Mbit/s, Mb/s, Mbps | kbit/s, kb/s, kbps | kB | ||||
| 1kb | 1 *10-6 | 1*10-3 | 1 | 0.125 | 66 minutes | 136 min | |
| 1mb | 0.001 | 1 | 1 000 | 125 | 4 seconds | 8 seconds | |
| 100mb | 0.1 | 100 | 100 000 | 12 500 | 0.04 seconds | 0.08 seconds | |
| 1gb | 1 | 1 000 | 1 000 0000 | 125 000 | 0.004 seconds | 0.008 seconds | |
| 100k | 0.000 8 | 0.8 | 800 | 100 | 5 seconds | 10.2 seconds | |