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Chapter 5. DCN Control using Personal Computers

To meet the ever changing requirements of modern conference venues and the demands of rapid technological changes, the DCN system has now integrated conference control and management with the flexibility and user friendliness of a personal computer. See Chapter 1. Introduction.

5.1Minimum Software and hardware requirements

Table 5-1: PC requirements

DCN Control PC

For Windows 95, 98

•Pentium II processor or higher

•48 Mbytes of memory or more (at least 32 Mbytes)

•Video card supporting at least VGA and SVGA resolutions, high or true colour

•Hard disk with data access time <10 ms and 100 MB free disk space, after installation of Windows.

•Ethernet network card for use in multi-PC systems

•Free ISA slot for network card LBB 3510/00 or free RS-232 port for direct connection to

CCU

Serial ports (RS-232) for connection to:

•Chip card encoder/reader

•Label printer

•Error logging

•Printing microphone activity

NOTE: A PC with at least 4 serial ports is recommended if a direct CCU connection and Chip-card encoder is used.

Parallel Printer Port for connection to printer

Connections for:

•Keyboard

•Mouse

For NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional

•The same requirements as used for Windows 95 and 98 but with at least 64 MB of memory, 96 MB recommended, PC-card LBB 3510/00 NOT supported.

•Free serial port for connection to CCU (baudrate 115,200 recommended).

•For XP Pentium IV: 1.7 GHz and 256 MB RAM

IMPORTANT:

1.If a‘DIRECT’ connection is made between the Control PC and the CCU,the operator has no connection to the PC for headphone or intercom handset. Additional DCN hardware is required for the operator if these functions are required. Use can be made of DCN table-top or flushmounted hardware depending on the requirements.

2.If the connection to the DCN control PC is via the PC-Network card, (installed in the DCN control PC) ONLY Windows 95 and 98 can be used.

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