Support: SAFARI Montage Live!
SAFARI Montage products are designed specifically with your environment in mind. Each product is tailored to support the most common, industry-standard platforms and plug-ins to ensure a minimal client footprint – minimizing deployment impact for IT Departments while ensuring seamless participation for students and educators.
SAFARI Montage Live! – System Requirements
Client Hardware Requirements
| WINDOWS | MAC | LINUX | ||
| Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz, AMD Athlon™ 600MHz or faster processor (or equivalent) | PowerPC® G3 500MHz or faster processor | Modern processor (800MHz or faster) | ||
| Intel Pentium 4 3GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor (or equivalent) recommended | Intel Core™ Duo 1.33GHz or faster processor | Intel Pentium 4 3GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor (or equivalent) recommended | ||
| Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor (recommended) | ||||
| 512MB of RAM | 512MB of RAM | 512MB of RAM, 128MB of graphics memory | ||
| 128MB of VRAM | 128MB of VRAM* | 128MB of VRAM* | ||
| *Recommended for GPU hardware acceleration–dependent features. Adobe® Flash® Player will use software mode for systems that do not meet the system requirements. | ||||
Client Operating Systems and Browsers
| Microsoft® Windows® | Windows 7 Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later, Firefox® 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL® 9, Opera 9.5 or later, Safari® 3.x, Google Chrome™ 2.0 or higher |
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| Windows Vista® Internet Explorer 7.0 or later, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL 9, Opera 9.5 or later, Safari 3.x, Google Chrome 2.0 or higher |
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| Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 or later, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL 9, Opera 9.5 or later, Safari 3.x, Google Chrome 2.0 or higher |
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| Windows 2000 Internet Explorer 7.0 or later, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL 9, Opera 9.5 |
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| Apple® Mac OS® | Mac OS X v10.4 or 10.5 (PowerPC) Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL for Mac OS X, Opera 9.5, Safari 3.x |
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| Mac OS X v10.4 or 10.5 (Intel) Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, Opera 9.5, Safari 3.x |
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| Linux® | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, SeaMonkey® 1.11 |
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| openSuse® 11 Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, SeaMonkey 1.11 |
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| Ubuntu 7.10 or later or 8.04 or later Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, SeaMonkey 1.11 |
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| Oracle® Solaris | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, SeaMonkey 1.11 |
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| Adobe Flash Player 9 or later (Adobe Flash Player 10 recommended) required on all Operating Systems. | ||||
Client Bandwidth
| AUDIO | VIDEO | SCREENSHARING & REMOTE CONTROL | ||
| From 30kbps upload (100kbps recommended) | From 100kbps upload (500kbps recommended, 1MBIT+ for HD) | From 300kbps upload (500kbps recommended) | ||
| From 30kbps per receiving stream download | From 100kbps per receiving stream download | From 300kbps download (1MBit+ recomended) | ||
| For the best possible and most reliable experience do not use WiFi equipment and use a high-grade, dedicated, low-latency broadband internet access. | ||||
Network Requirements
| Server Connection | Gigabit Wired Ethernet | |||
| Switched Backbone | ||||
| Full Duplex | ||||
| Firewall Configuration | 80 (TCP) - HTTP (required) | |||
| 1935 (TCP/UDP) - RTMP (required for FLASH access) | ||||
| 443 (TCP) - HTTPS (optional) | ||||
| Additional | All SAFARI Montage products rely on well-configured local and wide-area networks. | |||
| SAFARI Digital Transcoders & Selective Video Streaming perform optimally when network switches and routers (for WANs) are configured to support multicasting, now standard on most current networking equipment. | ||||
| Performance of SAFARI Montage may be enhanced with Quality of Service (“QoS”) network configurations and/or packetshapers. | ||||