Hardware Recommendations for NetSwitcher (including NetMatrix Viewer)


The following recommendations reflect the hardware components currently available on the market.

This section describes the recommended hardware for use with the OnSSI NetSwitcher and NetMatrix Viewer. ONSSI software products, being open-architecture, can operate on any PC hardware platform by any manufacturer, as long as it complies with the minimum requirements described below.

• NetSwitcher AServer - This server contains the main matrix switch engine, database and maps and should be a RAID Server class hardware.
• NetSwitcher Controller - Operator's control panel interface to operate the matrix switch.
• NetSwitcher Viewer - This module provides the display monitor function on a video wall. A single PC can drive 1-2 monitors and each monitor can provide a single or quad view.
• NetSwitcher Administrator - this administration module is installed on either the NetSwitcher Server or the NetSwitcher Controller PCs. It has no effect on system performance. In the specifications list below, it is included in the NetSwitcher Controller specifications.

Minimum Hardware Recommendation for NetSwitcher Server

Minimum Hardware Recommendation for NetSwitcher Controller and Administrator

Minimum Hardware Recommendation for NetSwitcher Viewer (including NetMatrix Viewer)

In calculating the number of NetSwitcher viewer PCs and the specs for each, please note:

1. The maximum number of camera streams per NetSwitcher Viewer PC depends on the parameters of the camera streams displayed - framerate, resolution, compression format, etc. Displaying a large number of megapixel cameras, for example, might result in degraded video quality.
2. The number of screens per NetSwitcher Viewer PC depends to a great extent on the video card's properties. As a rule of thumb, the video card should have 256 MB of on-card RAM per screen (i.e. a dual screen card should have minimum 512 MB of RAM, and a quad card 1 GB of RAM).

The following specifications are based on four camera streams displayed per screen:

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