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Appendix D - Install TDMA Calculator Standalone Tool
Hardware Requirements
9 APPENDIX D - INSTALL TDMA CALCULA-
TOR STANDALONE TOOL
Beside the TDMA Calculation tool, integrated in the Network Configurator of Sky NMS, a stan-
dalone tool is available. In the following chapters hard- and software requirements as well as
installation description is provided.
Differences in the behaviour and handling of the two tool versions can be found in chapter 2.6
of this manual.
No access rights (no login, no licence) are required to install, start and operate Sky WAN
®
TDMA Calculator standalone tool.
9.1 Hardware Requirements
The following minimum hardware platform requirements for the Sky WAN
®
TDMA Calculator
standalone tool have been identified:
- PC with 1 Gigahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended,
- 1 GByte of RAM or higher,
- 250 MByte of available hard disk space,
- XGA (1024 x 768) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor,
- CD-ROM or DVD drive,
- Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device,
- Ethernet network interface card and ethernet cable,
- Serial port and serial cable.
9.2 Software Requirements
Sky WAN
®
TDMA Calculator uses the commercial operating system Microsoft Windows XP-
Professional or Windows 7 (32bit), Multilingual or English, default language setting is English.
The installation of the latest service pack is mandatory. For security reasons it is recommended
that all latest security patches of Microsoft Windows as well as for all applications are installed.
The following software requirements for the Sky WAN
®
TDMA Calculator Standalone Tool have
been identified:
- Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 7.
- Adobe Reader 7.0 or higher.
- Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) , Version 1.6.21 or higher.
- Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher as standard browser.
To save a file (export) to the local PC filesystem, the user needs write access to the appropriate
directory.