Hardware and Operating System

• IT Requirements for Orbit Mapping solutions
• IT Requirements for Orbit Publisher
• IT Requirements for Orbit Mobile Mapping Publishing Clients
• IT Requirements for Orbit Strabo and UAV solutions
• IT Requirements for Orbit Public Safety solutions
• IT Requirements for Orbit Government solutions

Orbit Technology runs on all platforms for which a proper Java runtime is available.

The Orbit technology is created in 100% pure Java. No extra's, no libraries, just Java. All Orbit products are thus runnable on all platforms for which a proper Java runtime is available. Some extensions are based on third-party libraries that are not portable: MrSID driver, ECW driver, FME support and others.

Orbit installation and support is guaranteed on :

• Desktop : XP, Vista, 7, 8
• Server : 2003, 2008, 2012

Installation remarks on Windows : Orbit Desktop products on Windows

Since Orbit is running on Java, it is possible to install Orbit on each distribution that supports Java.
It is required the system administrator has a firm knowledge of the OS.

All distributions has their own characteristics, we tested and advise :

• Ubuntu 10.0 or higher
• CentOS 5.0 or higher

Depending your configuration following programs might 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)

Installation remarks on Linux : Orbit on Linux

Orbit Geospatial Technologies is committed to international and interprofessional standards.

• Most important spatial data formats are supported (or can be supported in the near future or by third parties)
• Orbit uses only standard java
• The IOS extension provides pure OGC WMS based services
• Orbit FlashMap uses standard http, XML communication
• N-tier communication uses standard internet protocol communication