Technical Specifications

We designed OnSync with the user in mind, aiming for simplicity and ease-of-use from the outset. Seamless connection to the service is critical so we set three key aims:

No need to download or install software.

Everything you need to web conference should already be on any computer - whether you are at work, home, an Internet café, hotel or a friend’s place.

Accessible from anywhere.

Access needs to be quick and easy no matter where you are in the world, regardless of existing firewalls.

24/7 uptime

An Internet service needs to be as reliable as a desktop application – always ready, always on.

Client System Requirements

Hardware

WINDOWS	MAC	LINUX
Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz, AMD Athlon™ 600MHz or faster processor (or equivalent) Intel Pentium 4 3GHz, AMD Athlon™ 64 3400+ processor (or equivalent) recommended	PowerPC® G3 500MHz or faster processor Intel Core™ Duo 1.33GHz or faster processor Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor (recommended)	Modern processor (800MHz or faster) Intel Pentium 4 3GHz, AMD Athlon™ 64 3400+ processor (or equivalent) recommended
512MB of RAM	512MB of RAM	512MB of RAM, 128MB of graphics memory
128MB of VRAM*	128MB of VRAM*	128MB of VRAM*

WINDOWS

MAC

LINUX

Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz, AMD Athlon™ 600MHz or faster processor (or equivalent)

Intel Pentium 4 3GHz, AMD Athlon™ 64 3400+ processor (or equivalent) recommended

PowerPC® G3 500MHz or faster processor

Intel Core™ Duo 1.33GHz or faster processor

Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor (recommended)

Modern processor (800MHz or faster)

Intel Pentium 4 3GHz, AMD Athlon™ 64 3400+ processor (or equivalent) recommended

512MB of RAM

512MB of RAM, 128MB of graphics memory

128MB of VRAM*

*Recommended for GPU hardware acceleration–dependent features. Flash Player will use software mode for systems that do not meet the system requirements.

Operating Systems & Browsers

Windows	Microsoft® Windows 7® Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL 9, Opera 9.5 or later, Safari 3.x, Chrome 2.0 or higher Microsoft® Windows Vista® Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL 9, Opera 9.5 or later, Safari 3.x, Chrome 2.0 or higher Microsoft® Windows XP® Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL 9, Opera 9.5 or later, Safari 3.x, Chrome 2.0 or higher Microsoft® Windows 2000® Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, AOL 9, Opera 9.5
MAC	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. Mac OS X v10.4.x or 10.5 (Intel) Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, Opera 9.5, Safari 3.x
Linux	Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, SeaMonkey 1.11 openSUSE® 11 Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, SeaMonkey 1.11 Ubuntu 7.10 or later or 8.04 or later Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, SeaMonkey 1.11
Solaris	Solaris 10 Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x

Flash Player 9 or later (Flash Player 10 recommended) required on all Operating Systems.

Bandwidth

AUDIO	VIDEO	SCREENSHARING & REMOTE CONTROL
From 30kbps upload (100kbps recommended) From 30kbps per receiving stream download	From 100kbps upload (500kbps recommended, 1MBIT+ for HD) From 100kbps per receiving stream download	From 300kbps upload (500kbps recommended) From 300kbps download (1MBit+ recomended)

While OnSync is designed to be bandwidth efficient and performance to degrade gracefully, OnSync is a broadband platform. For best possible and most reliable experience do not use WiFi equipment and use a high-grade, dedicated, low-latency broadband internet access. Use our System Check application to test your connection prior to attending a conference.

Server System Requirements

Communication Server

HARDWARE	OPERATING SYSTEM	SOFTWARE
* Intel® Pentium® 4, 3.2 GHz (Dual Xeon® or higher recommended) * 2 GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended) * 100MB of available disk space for installation, 80GB+ recommended for Content Storage * CD-ROM Drive (optional) * Gigabit Network Adapter * RAID Drive recommended	* Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 SP2 or 2008 * Linux® Red Hat® 4 or 5.2	* Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5.3 or higher

Web Server

HARDWARE	OPERATING SYSTEM	SOFTWARE
* Celeron, 2GHz * 512 MB of RAM (1GB recommended) * 100MB of available disk space for installation, 10GB+ recommended for Content Storage * CD-ROM Drive (optional) * Gigabit Network Adapter * RAID Drive (optional)	* Windows 2003 Server, or * Windows 2000 Server, or * Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6 or later), or * Linux, or * Mac OSX	* Apache webserver (Apache 2 recommended) * PHP 5.2.x or higher * MySQL 3.23 or higher

For Linux installations please read "Preparing your Linux servers for OnSync" (pdf, 41 kb).

File Conversion Server

HARDWARE	OPERATING SYSTEM	SOFTWARE
* Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz processor or better (Dual Xeon or higher recommended) * 1GB available RAM (2GB or more recommended) * 40MB of available disk space for installation, 10GB+ recommended for temporary content storage * CD-ROM Drive (optional) * 100 Mbit Network Adapter	* Windows 2008 Server, or * Windows 2003 Server, or * Windows 2000 Server, or * Windows XP	* Microsoft Office 2003 (2007 recommended) * Adobe PDF Reader 9 or later * Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or later * Proftp (on the PHP webserver that is queried by the conversion server)

For more information and network requirements please read "OnSync Converter Technical Requirements" (pdf, 40 kb).

Supported Input Devices

Camera & Video

WINDOWS	MAC	Linux
* Any Camera or Video Card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM) * USB and FireWire supported * OnSync has been tested and works well with most Logitech Web Cameras. QuickCam® Pro 9000 recommended	* Any Camera or Video Card compatible with the QuickTime driver model * USB and FireWire supported * OnSync has been tested and works well with iSight Cameras. We can also recommend the Logitech QuickCam® Vision Pro	* Any Camera or Video Card compatible with Video4Linux 1 driver model for Flash Player 9 * Any Camera or Video Card compatible with Video4Linux 2 driver model for Flash Player 10 (recommended) * USB and FireWire supported

Microphone, Headset & Audio

WINDOWS	MAC	Linux
* Any microphone or sound card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM) * USB and FireWire supported * Headsets or echo-canceliing microhpones are strongly recommended	* Any microhphone or sound card compatible with the QuickTime driver model * USB and FireWire supported * Headsets or echo-canceliing microhpones are strongly recommended	* Any Microphone, headset or audio card with ALSA support for Flash Player 9 * Any Microphone, headset or audio card with ALSA support for Flash Player 10 (recommended) * USB and FireWire supported * Headsets or echo-canceliing microhpones are strongly recommended

Supported File Types

Native Support

IMAGE	VIDEO	AUDIO	EXTERNAL SOURCES
* PNG * GIF * JPG * SWF	* FLV * F4V * MP4 * M4A * MOV * MP4V * 3GP * 3G2	* F4A * MP3	* YouTube@ * Flickr@ * Any URL with a supported file type

Supported by OnSync Converter

IMAGE	VIDEO	AUDIO	MS OFFICE, TEXT & PDF
*BMP	* MPG * MPEG * MP4 * MPG4 * MOV, MOOV * WMV	* AAC * WMA	* PPT, PPTX * DOC, DOCX * XLS, XLSX * TXT, RTF * PDF

Files supported by OnSync converter will be automatically prepared for online presentation by the OnSync conversion software. All ASP customers enjoy this service. Due to the great diversity in video codecs and Digital Rights Management (DRM), some video files may fail to convert even though they carry a file extension listed above. Contact us if you want to present a file that is not listed above, or use the inbuilt screen sharing feature to instantly broadcast your desktop.