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The worlds best fully customizable white label webinar platform built entirely in HTML5 and WebRTC

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Change the layout of your video conference in just a few clicks

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Broadcast interactive webinars to YouTube and Facebook Live

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Samba Live for Webinars

Manage meetings, webinars, and events from anywhere in the world on any device to an audience of any size

LEARN MORE
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Samba Live for Education

Fully engage your learners and maximize their education with a tool built for their success

LEARN MORE
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Samba Live for OEM

The worlds best fully customizable white label webinar platform built entirely in HTML5 and WebRTC

LEARN MORE
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Layouts

Change the layout of your video conference in just a few clicks

LEARN MORE
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Custom Branding

Customize your webinars to make the platform your own

LEARN MORE
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Live Streaming

Broadcast interactive webinars to YouTube and Facebook Live

LEARN MORE
More Features

HD Videoconferencing

Screen Sharing
SEE ALL FEATURES

Whiteboard

Webinar Recording

Polling

Breakout Rooms
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Technical specifications

We designed Samba Live 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, accessible from anywhere, 24/7 availability.

Client system requirements
Windows

For participants:

Any 2GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core CPU or better)

4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more)
Mac

For participants:

Any 2GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core CPU or better)

4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more)
Linux

For participants:

Any 2GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core CPU or better)

4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more)
Windows

Microsoft® Windows 10®, 8.x®, or 7® SP1
Chrome v34+ (recommended for best performance). Firefox 34+, Opera 21+, Edge 79+
Mac

Mac OS X v10.8 or higher
Chrome v34+ (recommended for best performance). Safari 12+, Firefox 34+, Opera 21+
Linux

All modern Linux distros with desktop environment (e.g., Ubuntu, Redhat)
Chrome v34+ (recommended for best performance). Firefox 34+, Opera 21+, Edge 79+
Solaris

Solaris 10
Chrome v34+ (recommended for best performance). Firefox 34+, Opera 21+, Edge 79+

We highly recommend making sure your browser is always kept up to date.
Android

Chrome 34+,
Firefox 65+,
Edge 79+
iOS

Safari 9+
Chrome 34+


We highly recommend using our mobile applications to access Samba Live sessions from mobile devices as they are optimized to guarantee high-level performance.
Audio

Minimum 50 kbps upload/download
(100 kbps recommended)
Video

Minimum 250kbps upload/download
(500 kbps recommended)
Video (HQ and resolution)

Minimum 900 kbps upload/download (3+ mbps recommended)
Screen sharing

Minimum 800 kbps upload/download (1.5 mbps recommended)

While Samba Live is designed to use bandwidth efficiently, and even though it does try to degrade gracefully, it is still a broadband platform. For best possible and most reliable experience do not use WiFi equipment and use high-grade, dedicated, low-latency broadband internet access. Use our System Check application to test your connection prior to attending a conference. Please consider packet loss, latency in round trips, and jitter value of connections used.

If you are using the Samba Live cloud service (on https://samba.live), you may check your ports and our server IP addresses on our System Check Tool. If you are a server client, please refer to your own system check tool (installed with your Samba Live) or contact support.

WEB SERVER
  • https traffic on port 443.
SIGNALLING SERVER
  • websockets/wss traffic on port 443
MEDIA SERVER API
  • https traffic on port 443.
MEDIA SERVER

The following port options are available to you, in order of decreasing performance.

1. Allow RTP Traffic UDP:1024-65535
This will give the best performance, as it provides a direct connection path to our media servers. 

2. Allow RTP Traffic UDP:80 or UDP:443 (incoming/outgoing)
This will allow UDP connections to our media servers via a TURN server on port 80. UDP is the preferred transfer protocol for real-time communications. However, the single port could cause performance problems if there is a lot of traffic between our networks. 

3. Allow RTP Traffic TCP:80 or TCP:443 (incoming/outgoing)
This will allow TCP connections to our media servers via a TURN server on port 80. TCP could cause issues, especially when there is a lot of traffic or poor connectivity. Additionally, the single port could cause performance problems if there is a lot of traffic between our networks. 

NOTE: For security reasons, we do not allow direct TCP connections to our media server.

What happens if you only open a few ports to the Media Server?
We require four ports per user for UDP streaming. Ports cannot be shared by users, and ports are assigned in a random fashion from any available server port in the range of 1024-65k. If the ports the service attempts to connect to are not available on the client then the system will fall back to relaying via TCP over the signaling server. So, if you happen to be extremely lucky, and all four ports you are assigned happen to fall into the IP range you opened then you will connect via UDP. This is not recommended.

Server system requirements
Hardware

CPU: 16 vCPU

RAM: 10 GB

At least 100 GB disk allocation

2 dedicated IPs
Operating system

Ubuntu 18.04
Software

Details available on request
Hardware

CPU: 8 vCPU

RAM: 12 GB

Disk: several TB, depending on usage

1 Dedicated IP

 
Operating system

Ubuntu 18.04
Software

Details available on request
Hardware

CPU: 4 cores

RAM: 4GB

At least 80GB disk allocation
Operating system
Windows 10 Professional, 64-bit
Software

Microsoft Office 2016

Adobe PDF Reader 10.x or later

Samba Live Media Converter 5.x
(OMC5 and iOMC)

Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5.2

NOTE: Two converter servers are required. These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware

Intel Xeon E5 3.5GHz or better

64 GB RAM

1 TB Disk
Operating system
Cent OS 6, 64-bit
Software

FreeSWITCH — version 1.4.15

CDR stats (optional)

PhoneSync server should be in same LAN as Media Server for optimal performance.
Hardware

CPU: 4 vCPU

RAM: 4GB

At least 60GB disk allocation

1 dedicated IP
Operating system
Ubuntu 18.04
Software

Details available on request
Hardware

CPU: 4 vCPU

RAM: 10 GB

At least 500 GB disk allocation

1 Dedicated IP
Operating system
Ubuntu 18.04
Software
Details available on request

NOTE : Each recorder node can run 8 recorder containers. Each recorder container is used for 1 recording, for the duration of the recording, so if you estimate more than 8 recordings simultaneously then provision a second node.
Hardware

2x Intel Deca-Core Xeon E5-2650v4

128 GB RAM

12x4TB SATA

RAID 10

1 Gbps link
Software
VMWare vSphere ESXi 6.5

These are sample hypervisor specs. Specifications could vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.

Supported input devices
Windows

Any camera or video card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM)

USB and FireWire supported

Samba Live has been tested and works well with most Logitech Web Cameras. Logitech C920 and later models recommended
Mac

Any camera or video card compatible with the QuickTime driver model

USB and FireWire supported
Linux
USB and FireWire supported
Windows

Any microphone or sound card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM)

USB and FireWire supported

Headsets or echo-canceling microphones are strongly recommended
Mac

Any microphone or sound card compatible with the QuickTime driver model

USB and FireWire supported

Headsets or echo-canceling microphones are strongly recommended
Linux

USB and FireWire supported

Headsets or echo-canceling microphones are strongly recommended

We support a wide range of drawing and writing devices. Please contact support if your device is not fully supported.

Supported file types
Image

PNG

GIF

JPG / JPEG
Video

MP4 / MPEG4

WEBM

 
Audio
MP3
External sources

YouTube ®

Vimeo ®

 

Files supported by Samba Live converter will be automatically prepared for online presentation by the Samba Live 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. Max file size 150MB.
Image

 
Video
Please note, at this time, the Samba Live converter doesn't support embedded videos
Audio
 
MS Office™, text and PDF

PPT, PPTX

DOC, DOCX

XLS, XLSX

TXT, RTF

PDF
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