Hardware Requirements

Server Application:

  • Processor: Intel i5-10500E 3.1 GHz / i7 processor
  • RAM: minimum 8 GB is required as the PC contains many other apps and programs; If the room contains more then 200 units , 16 GB RAM is required for the Room Server PC.
  • Free disk space: minimum 10 GB
  • Network connectivity: at least 100 Mb/s

Client Application:

  • Processor: Intel i3 2 GHz or higher
  • RAM: minimum 4GB
  • Recommended graphical hardware supporting DirectX 9.0 or better.
  • Free disk space: minimum 10 GB
  • Network connectivity: at least 100 Mb/s

📝 When running multiple client applications on the same PC, at least 2GB per client application is required.

 

Network:

Network requirements for the Plixus Multimedia engine (Plixus AE-R or Plixus MME):

  • Available bandwidth of at least 100 Mb/s for each CoCon Room Server/Central unit connection.
  • Available bandwidth of at least 100 Mb/s for each CoCon Room Server/client connection.
  • Certain network topologies do not allow the auto-Room Server discovery. A manual setting is available, see “Login Screen” on page 40.

Switch requirements:

  • Bandwidth (switching capacity): at least 16 Gbp.
  • Packet buffer RAM: 512 KBytes per device.
  • Filtering address table: 8K MAC addresses per device

Software Requirements

Operating systems supported:

  • Windows 10 Pro (en-US) installed with English International language*
  • Windows 11 Pro (en-US) installed with English International language*

*The English (en-US) version of Windows is mandatory for the installation of CoCon and SQL Server. Note that you can still change the Windows display to your language of preference afterwards, and also select one of the 19 supported languages in CoCon.

 

📝 Each PC installed with a CoCon component (any client application or the Server) should also be provided with the .Net Framework 4.6.2. This will be installed automatically when CoCon is being installed.